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A sexually-promiscuous priest is stabbed to death inside a church. | add synopsis
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Cast

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Renzo Montagnani ... Commissario Franco Boito
Bedy Moratti ... Orchidea Durantini
Eva Czemerys ... Giulia Pisani
Salvatore Puntillo ... Moriconi
Claudia Gravy ... Sister Tarquinia
Alcira Harris
Arturo Trina ... Ferruccio
Adolfo Belletti ... Anselmo Barsetti - The Sacristan
Arnaldo Bellofiore
Francesco D'Adda ... Pisani - Giulia's Husband
Maurizio Bonuglia ... Don Giorgio
Gina Mascetti ... Mother Superior
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Directed by
Francesco Mazzei 
 
Writing credits
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Marcello Aliprandi  writer
Mario Bianchi  writer
Bruno Di Geronimo  writer
Vinicio Marinucci  writer
Francesco Mazzei  writer

Original Music by
Francesco De Masi 
 
Cinematography by
Giovanni Ciarlo 
 
Film Editing by
Alberto Gallitti 
 

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Also Known As:
The Weapon, the Hour, & the Motive (USA)
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105 min
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1 out of 2 people found the following review useful.
A Very Average Giallo With an Interesting Side, 23 April 2003
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Author: taihei yasui (hae13400) from tokyo, japan

A young clergyman, Don, has had two loves, and now he chooses one of them, Julia, as his only one lover. But soon Don is found dead in the chapel. And there is a witness, Felcio, who tells almost nothing about the murder to the police. But the murderer continues to take people's lives, and finally Felcio decides to inform of the very secret of the first murder... This is a typical Giallo film with good music by Francesco De Masi. The problem is that he does better jobs in other films. Indeed almost everything about this film seems to have average quality and therefore I have almost nothing say about it. Still it can be said that the story itself, which is nether complex nor confused, has at least one interesting side. Person like the first and leading victim, Don, is immoral. And killing the immoral person is much more immoral. But not revealing those immoralities is immoral? Or is there clear distinction between killing and letting-die? Although this film as a whole is not a moralistic one its religious and/or philosophical side, which seems to support the classic claim that there can be a deductive proof that the God does not exist based upon the existence of the evil, is rather unique and therefore can be interesting.

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