Il saprofita (internationally released as The Profiteer) is a 1974Italiandrama film directed by Sergio Nasca.[1] It marked the directorial debut of Nasca and raised some controversies due to its polemic plot and to its violence.[2]
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 a driver and male nurse by a rich and apparently pious family of landowners, and soon becomes the lover of the beautiful Baroness Clotilde.
References
^Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia. Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film. Gremese, 1991. ISBN8876059695.
^Roberto Poppi. I registi: dal 1930 ai giorni nostri. Gremese Editore, 2002. ISBN8884401712.
