In 18th-century Rome, impish aristocrat Onofrio del Grillo amuses himself by playing pranks on all sorts of people — his reactionary family and fellow nobles, the poors, the French occupiers trying to modernize society, and even the Pope himself.

• Gaumont
• Opera Film Produzione
• Alberto Sordi
• Paolo Stoppa
• Caroline Berg
• Riccardo Billi
• Flavio Bucci
• Camillo Milli
• Cochi Ponzoni
• Marc Porel