Top Cast
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Martin Halm
Ernesto
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Michele Placido
The man
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Virna Lisi
Ernesto's Mother
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Turi Ferro
Carlo Wilder
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Lara Wendel
Ilio / Rachele
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Gisela Hahn
Signora Luzzato, Mother of Ilio and Rachele
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Stefano Madia
Ernesto's friend Andrea
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Francisco Marsó
Uncle Giovanni
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Miranda Nocelli
Prostitute Sandra
Overview
Ernesto is a young Italian Jew of the early 1900s who works in his uncle's factory in Trieste. Not entirely secure with his sexual orientation, Ernesto enters into an affair with one of his uncle's employees.
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