''Cagliostro'' is a 1975

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directed by Daniele Pettinari. Loosely based on the real life events of

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, the film has many historical inaccuracies, including the claim that Giuseppe Balsamo and Cagliostro were two different persons.

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as Cagliostro / Giuseppe Balsamo *

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as Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Braschi, future

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as Lorenza Balsamo *

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as Serafina Cagliostro *

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as Cardinal Louis-René-Édouard de Rohan-Guéménée *

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as the Queen * Adolfo Lastretti as the

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as the beggar *

Franco Ressel Franco Ressel (8 February 1925 – 30 April 1985) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 120 films between 1961 and 1985. Selected filmography * ''La cento chilometri'' (1959) – The Gay Race Walker (uncredited) * '' The Assa ...

as Morandi *

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as the naturalist monk *

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as Prelate *

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as French noblewoman *

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