{{Infobox film | name = The Profiteer | image = Il saprofita.jpg | director = Sergio Nasca | writer = | starring = | music = Sante Maria Romitelli | cinematography = Giuseppe Aquari | editing = | producer = | distributor = Variety Distribution | released = {{Film date|1974}} | country = Italy | language = Italian | budget = }} '''''Il saprofita''''' (internationally released as '''''The Profiteer''''') is a 1974 Italian drama film directed by Sergio Nasca.<ref name="70-79 m-z">{{cite book|author1=Roberto Chiti |author2=Roberto Poppi |author3=Enrico Lancia |title=Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film|publisher=Gremese, 1991|isbn=8876059695}}</ref> It marked the directorial debut of Nasca and raised some controversies due to its polemic plot and its violence.<ref name=bio>{{cite book|last=Roberto Poppi|title=I registi: dal 1930 ai giorni nostri|publisher=Gremese Editore, 2002|isbn=8884401712}}</ref>
== Cast == * Al Cliver : Ercole * Valeria Moriconi : The Baroness Clotilda * Janet Agren : Teresa * Giancarlo Marinangeli: Parsifal * Cinzia Bruno: Brunilde * Leopoldo Trieste : Don Vito * Rina Franchetti : Bigot * Nerina Montagnani : The servant of the Holy Man * Clara Colosimo : Lady at the wake * Giancarlo Badessi : Superior of the Seminary * Carlo Monni : General Augusto Bezzi
== Plot == In a small town in Apulia, the seminarian Ercole, who failed to become a priest due to an injury that caused him to lose his speech, is hired as a driver and male nurse by a rich and apparently pious family of landowners, and soon becomes the lover of the beautiful Baroness Clotilde. ==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{IMDb title|0141746}} *[https://www.varietydistribution.it/en/catalogue/saprofitous-the/ ''The Profiteer''] at Variety Distribution
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