Il ladrone

{{short description|1980 film}}

{{Infobox film

| name = Il ladrone
(The Good Thief)

| image = Il ladrone.jpg

| caption =

| director = Pasquale Festa Campanile

| writer = Pasquale Festa Campanile, Ottavo Jemma

| starring = Enrico Montesano, Edwige Fenech, Claudio Cassinelli

| music = Ennio Morricone

| cinematography = Giancarlo Ferrando

| editing = Alberto Gallitti

| producer = Fulvio Lucisano

| distributor = IIF - Fulvio Lucisano

| released = {{Film date|1980}}

| runtime = 112 min

| country = Italy

| language = Italian

| budget =

}}

Il ladrone (internationally released as The Good Thief and The Thief) is a 1980 Italian comedy film written and directed by Pasquale Festa Campanile.{{cite news|title=Il ladrone buono, dal Vangelo alla commedia|newspaper=La Stampa|date=10 February 1980}}

For his performance in this film and in Aragosta a colazione, Enrico Montesano was awarded with a Special David di Donatello award.{{cite book|last=Enrico Lancia|title=I premi del cinema|year=1998|publisher=Gremese Editore, 1998|isbn=8877422211}}

Plot

In Palestine, the thief Caleb deceives his victims with fake miracles, and the man gets very upset when he learns that a young man by the name of Christ, the Messiah, performs real miracles, healing people and raising the dead. Caleb is jailed by the Romans. He will die along with the Messiah.

Cast

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