Police Chief Pepe

Police Chief Pepe

1969 · 107 min · ★ 5.9 · Crime, Drama

A police commissioner in a little town in the Italian Venetian province investigates a prostitution ring run by two pensioners; during his investigations he also learns that a former manicurist shacks up with ten students, the prefect's daughter prostitutes to keep her pimp, a famous doctor has sex with his young patients, a headmaster has his eyes on the pupils, a noblewoman organizes orgies in her villa, the local convent is run by a lesbian and his actual girlfriend poses for a hardcore magazine. He wants everything to come out in the open but his superiors try to put obstacles in his way.

Directed by Ettore Scola · Written by Ruggero Maccari

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Ugo Tognazzi Commissario Antonio Pepe
Giuseppe Maffioli Parigi, il mutilato
Silvia Dionisio Silvia
Tano Cimarosa Agente Cariddi
Marianne Comtell Matilde Carroni, amante di Pepe
Michele Capnist dott. Mario Valenga
Dana Ghia Suor Clementina
Elsa Vazzoler Vecchia prostituta
Véronique Vendell Maristella Diotallevi
Rita Calderoni Annalisa
Virgilio Scapin Conte Lancillotto
Elena Persiani Marchesa Nonna Zaccarin

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