| The Profiteer | |
| Director: | Sergio Nasca |
| Music: | Sante Maria Romitelli |
| Cinematography: | Giuseppe Aquari |
| Distributor: | Variety Distribution |
| Language: | Italian |
Il saprofita (internationally released as The Profiteer) is a 1974 Italian drama 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 driver and male nurse into a rich and apparently pious family of landowners, and soon became the lover of the beautiful Baroness Clotilde.