

The story of a young man of the working class, who has grown up practically an orphan due to his father’s repeated jailings for anarchistic activism. Struggling with life in 19th-century Italy, Metello Salani is determined to change his situation for the better - but love, marriage and politics complicate things considerably...
Directed by Mauro Bolognini, Fausto Saraceni
User score
22 votes

Released
March 10, 1970
1h 47m
Italian

Massimo Ranieri
Metello Salani

Ottavia Piccolo
Ersilia

Frank Wolff
Betto

Tina Aumont
Idina

Lucia Bosè
Viola

Pino Colizzi
Renzoli

Mariano Rigillo
Olindo Tinai

Luigi Diberti
Lippi
Manuela Andrei
Adele Salani

Corrado Gaipa
Badolati
Adolfo Geri
Del Bueno

Claudio Biava
Moretti

Franco Balducci
Chellini

Steffen Zacharias
Pallesi

Sergio Ciulli

Luigi Antonio Guerra

Piero Morgia
Facchino

Gabriele Lavia
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