A young bank teller, literally allergic to paper money, becomes the worst nightmare of his best customer, a wealthy butcher who manages his business unscrupulously.
Direction
Petri's surgical framing makes greed grotesquely beautiful.
Acting
Tognazzi's butcher sweats capitalist anxiety through his pores.
Production
That apartment—a hoarder's monument to consumption.
Director
Elio Petri
Ugo Tognazzi
The Butcher
Flavio Bucci
Total
Daria Nicolodi
Anita
Mario Scaccia
Albertone
Orazio Orlando
Brigadier Pirelli
Julien Guiomar
Bank Manager
Cecilia Polizzi
Mafalda
Jacques Herlin
Bank Employee
Ada Pometti
Handmaid
Pierluigi D'Orazio
Albertone's Accomplice
Luigi Antonio Guerra
Protester
Gino Milli
Zagané
Gigi Proietti
Paco
Salvo Randone
Total's Father
Ettore Garofolo
Bocio (uncredited)
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