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The Infamous Column (Italian: La colonna infame, also known as Pillar of Shame) is a 1973 Italian historical drama film directed by Nelo Risi.[1][2]

The Infamous Column
Directed by	Nelo Risi
Written by	Nelo Risi Vasco Pratolini
Story by	Alessandro Manzoni
Starring	Helmut Berger Vittorio Caprioli Francisco Rabal
Cinematography	Giulio Albonico
Music by	Giorgio Gaslini
Release date	1973 (1973)
Language	Italian

Plot

It is 1630, and a devastating plague has descended upon the city of Milan. Guglielmo Piazza and Giacomo Mora are depicted as two city's artisans (really only Mora, a barber, was an artisan while Piazza was a sanity officer). One day a woman accuses Piazza of being an untore (i.e. a greaser): a spreader of disease by anointing walls and furnitures with a pestiferous ointment. According to a superstitious belief held by the people, these untori were in league with the Devil, and were responsible for the spread of the pestilence.

Immediately the Church and the Inquisition scapegoat the two artisans for the outbreak, and subject them to trial by torture, despite the protests of Cardinal Borromeo.

Innocent victims of a panic which has gripped the populace, Piazza and Mora are found guilty of the imaginary crime of smearing poisonous substances about in the city to induce plague. They are put to death upon the wheel. Afterwards, a pillar (The Infamous Column of the title) is erected in the square which beheld their execution, with a warning for the masses, to guard against eruptions of public hysteria ever again.

Cast

• Helmut Berger: Arconati
• Vittorio Caprioli: Guglielmo Piazza
• Francisco Rabal: Giacomo Mora
• Lucia Bosé: Chiara
• Salvo Randone: Settala
• Sergio Tofano: President of the Senate
• Pierluigi Aprà: Senator Monti
• Annabella Incontrera: Lover of Arcomat
• Feodor Chaliapin Jr.: Cardinal Federico
• Ernesto Colli: Judge
• Martin Balsam

See also

• List of Italian films of 1972

References

External links

• The Infamous Column at IMDb

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