06 March 2014

Lentorama 2014: We're Ready for Your Close-up, Your Holiness

Day 2: Cagliostro

Based on a real-life figure involved in the Affair of the Diamond Necklace (among other things), the count in this 1975 film has developed a number of supernatural powers through occult studies, and is traveling Europe healing the sick and working with a secret society that aims to free the continent from oppression. This, not surprisingly, catches the attention of Europe monarch and Pope Clement XIII, who move to eliminate the count. They do succeed in imprisoning him, but with surprising results.

The pope is played by Robert Alda, who is probably best known as the father of Alan Alda, of M*A*S*H fame.


 

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