Massimo Ranieri	Metello
Ottavia Piccolo	Ersilia
Frank Wolff	Betto
Tina Aumont	Idina
Lucia Bosé	Viola
Pino Colizzi	Renzoli
Mariano Rigillo	Olindo
Luigi Diberti	Lippi
Manuela Andrei	Adele Salani
Corrado Gaipa	Badolati
Piero Lorgia
Adolfo Geri	Del Bueno
Claudio Biava	Moretti
Renzo Montagnani	Caco
Franco Balducci	Chellini

At the beginning of the century the mason Metello Salani (Ranieri) participates to the rising of the socialist movement: halted for insigation to the revolt, in prison he will learn of the victory of his companions. A period reconstruction in difficult equilibrium between populist epic and figurative preciosities. Well directed the actors ( Piccolo was rewarded at Cannes), and unexceptionable the wrapping (music of Ennio Morricone, photography of Ennio Guamieri). (P. Mereghetti “Dizionario dei film 1998”, translated by Alice Castoldi).