Eye of the Cat

Eye of the Cat is a 1975 Italian comedy film written and directed by Alberto Bevilacqua. Cast Nino Manfredi as Marcello Ferrari Mariangela Melato as Giulia Eli Wallach as Cesare (voice of Sergio Fiorentini) Enzo Cannavale as Lolo Francisco Rabal as the priest (voice of Luciano De Ambrosis) Mario Scaccia as Salomone Adriana Innocenti as Jolanda Franco Scandurra as The Butler (voice of Giorgio Piazza) Ettore Manni as Cesare's friend Erika Blanc as Margot Cristina Gaioni as a prostitute Loredana Bertè as a prostitute Plot Ras (Eli Wallach) is a ruler or dictator who covets another man's wife (Mariangela Melato) as his own. He gets what he wants, but Ras wants more: in this case, to humiliate Marcello (Nino Manfredi), a dedicated musician whose life he has already ruined by leaving his cat and taking his wife. He forces Marcello to seek an annulment to his marriage through the Vatican. Ras gets everything, but Marcello's wife, Giulia, and Marcello have other ideas.