To win a duel, a merchant makes a dangerous pact with an inscrutable spellcaster.
Practical Effects
The disembodied hand puppet — gloriously unconvincing, utterly charming.
Acting
Gabriele Ferzetti plays Shakespearean tragedy in a movie about a magic hand.
Director
Marcello Aliprandi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Veronica Lario later became First Lady of Italy as Silvio Berlusconi's wife — her film career is rarely discussed.
Part of Italy's 1980s TV movie boom, when RAI commissioned bizarre genre experiments that now survive only in VHS rips.
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