A broke prince plays therapist to a rich shipowner — class warfare at 24fps.
Sicily, early 1900s. An impoverished prince settles into the house of a rich shipowner and becomes his counselor.
Acting
Nerio Bernardi's prince — dignity threadbare at the elbows.
Production
Sicilian locations shot under wartime constraints, 1943.
Director
Renato Angiolillo
Nerio Bernardi
Il principe Raimondo di Falcomarzano
Oretta Fiume
La principessa Giovanna
Turi Pandolfini
Don Ignazio D'Azevegno
Adriano Rimoldi
Stefano Turrisi
Luigi Almirante
Commendator Murrita
Umberto Spadaro
Mucugno
Clelia Matania
Cristina Turrisi
Alfredo Martinelli
Spinelli
Germana Paolieri
Donna Franca
Anna Carena
Stella D'Azevegno
Loris Gizzi
Sindaco
Dhia Cristiani
Canzonettista
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in 1942-43 as Italy's war effort collapsed; released into rubble and silence. The film's obscurity isn't artistic failure — it's historical trauma.
Nerio Bernardi would spend decades as Italian cinema's go-to aristocrat, from here to Fellini's Roma. This is his origin story.
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