Cagliostro (1975 film) explained

Cagliostro
Director:	Daniele Pettinari
Starring:	Bekim Fehmiu Curd Jürgens Rosanna Schiaffino
Music:	Manuel De Sica
Cinematography:	Giuseppe Pinori
Editing:	Adriano Tagliavia
Language:	Italian

Cagliostro is a 1975 Italian biographical-drama film directed by Daniele Pettinari.^[1] Loosely based on the real life events of Alessandro Cagliostro, the film has many historical inaccuracies, including the claim that Giuseppe Balsamo and Cagliostro were two different persons.^[2]

Cast

• Bekim Fehmiu as Cagliostro / Giuseppe Balsamo
• Curd Jürgens as Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Braschi, future Pope Pius VI
• Rosanna Schiaffino as Lorenza Balsamo
• Evelyn Stewart as Serafina Cagliostro
  • • Massimo Girotti as Giacomo Casanova Robert Alda as Pope Clement XIII Luigi Pistilli as Cardinal Louis-René-Édouard de Rohan-Guéménée
• Anna Orso as the Queen
• Adolfo Lastretti as the Camerlengo
• Alessandro Haber as the beggar
• Franco Ressel as Morandi
• Antonio Pierfederici as the naturalist monk
• Luigi Montini as Prelate
• Ada Pometti as French noblewoman
• Corrado Annicelli

Notes and References

1. Book: Roberto Chiti . Roberto Poppi . Enrico Lancia . Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film. Gremese, 1991. 8876059350.
2. News: Piero Perona. Il Cagliostro a St-Vincent porta grane in anteprima. Stampa Sera. 20 January 1975. 6.