
December 20, 1939 · 86 years old

A Southern Italian singer moves to Milan to have more chances with his career, bringing a little bit of the South with him.

Geremia, an aging tailor/money lender, is a repulsive, mean, stingy man who lives alone in his shabby house with his scornful, bedridden mother. He has a morbid, obsessive relationship with money and he uses it to insinuate himsel...