In Turin, a fanatic priest dies falling from the pulpit, killed by the explosion of a candle. A second assassination, that of a Carabinieri Marshal, complicates the investigation - but before he died, the Marshal managed to wrote down the word "Topos". Commissioner Santamaria now has to unravel the problem.
Marcello Mastroianni
Marie Laforêt
Yvonne Sciò
Ennio Fantastichini
Angela Finocchiaro
Alessandro Haber
Max von Sydow
Emmanuelle Riva
Sergio Fantoni
Leo Gullotta
Lorenzo Amato
Bruno Bilotta
Renato Carpentieri
Gabriella Giorgelli
Pierfrancesco Loche
Carlo Monni
Adriana Russo
Tony Sperandeo