Film

Ernesto

5.719791h 38mDrama Music Romance

Director: Salvatore Samperi
Year: 1979

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.

Top cast

Martin Halm

Ernesto

Michele Placido

The man

Virna Lisi

Ernesto's Mother

Turi Ferro

Carlo Wilder

Lara Wendel

Ilio / Rachele

Gisela Hahn

Signora Luzzato, Mother of Ilio and Rachele

Stefano Madia

Ernesto's friend Andrea

Francisco Marsó

Uncle Giovanni

Miranda Nocelli

Prostitute Sandra

Concha Velasco

Aunt Regina

Renato Salvatori

Cesco

Marco Guadagno

Ilio (voice) (uncredited)

Enrique San Francisco

(uncredited)

Enrique Vivó

(uncredited)

Directed by

Salvatore Samperi

Written by

Amedeo Pagani, Barbara Alberti, Salvatore Samperi

Produced by

Marco Tamburella, Salvatore Samperi, José Frade