| The Return of Cagliostro | |
| Music: | Salvatore Bonafede |
| Cinematography: | Daniele Ciprì |
| Runtime: | 100 minutes |
The Return of Cagliostro (Italian: Il ritorno di Cagliostro) is a 2003 Italian mockumentary-comedy film directed by Daniele Ciprì and Franco Maresco.[1]
For his performance in this film and in Break Free Luigi Maria Burruano received a special mention from the Pasinetti Award jury at the 2003 Venice Film Festival.[2]
In the immediate post-war Sicily the La Marca brothers, owners of a sacred craft company, set up, with the consent of the Archbishop of Palermo Cardinal Sucato, the Trinacria House of Film Production, which they intend it should be the "beginning of a Sicilian Hollywood". The first films, played by non-professional actors, badly rehearsed and directed, are commercial disasters, and so to revive the fortunes of the company they have the idea to make a film about the life of Cagliostro, engaging Errol Douglas, an alcoholic Hollywood star whose career is going into sharp decline, in the title role.
Carmelo La Marca
Erroll Douglas
Salvatore La Marca
Cardinal Sucato / Pino Grisanti
Elizabeth Burnett