In 18th-century Rome, impish aristocrat Onofrio del Grillo amuses himself by playing pranks on all sorts of people — his reactionary family and fellow nobles, the poors, the French occupiers trying to modernize society, and even the Pope himself.
Alberto Sordi
as Onofrio Del Grillo
Paolo Stoppa
as Papa Pio VII
Caroline Berg
as Olimpia
Riccardo Billi
as Aronne Piperno
Flavio Bucci
as Don Bastiano
Camillo Milli
as Segretario del Papa
Cochi Ponzoni
as Conte Rambaldo
Marc Porel
as Capitano Blanchard
Pietro Tordi
as Monsignor Terenzio Del Grillo
Leopoldo Trieste
as Padre Sabino
Giorgio Gobbi
as Ricciotto
Isabelle Linnartz
as Genuflessa