The Profiteer

Il saprofita (internationally released as The Profiteer) is a 1974 Italian drama film directed by Sergio Nasca. It marked the directorial debut of Nasca and raised some controversies due to its polemic plot and to its violence.

Cast

 * Al Cliver : Ercole
 * Valeria Moriconi : The Baroness Clotilda
 * Janet Agren : Teresa
 * Giancarlo Marinangeli: Parsifal
 * Cinzia Bruno: Brunilde
 * Leopoldo Trieste : Don Vito
 * Rina Franchetti : Bigot
 * Nerina Montagnani : The servant of the Holy Man
 * Clara Colosimo : Lady at the wake
 * Giancarlo Badessi : Superior of the Seminary
 * Carlo Monni : General Augusto Bezzi

Plot
In a small town in Apulia, the seminarian Ercole, who failed to become a priest due to an injury that caused him to lose his speech, is hired as driver and male nurse into a rich and apparently pious family of landowners, and soon became the lover of the beautiful Baroness Clotilde.