title: Il profeta
text: # Il profeta
  
  Il profeta (internationally released as Mr. Kinky and The Prophet) is a 1968 Italian comedy film directed by Dino Risi.
  
  ## Plot
  
  Pietro Breccia (Vittorio Gassman) is a man who has long decided to abandon civilization, becoming a hermit, leaving behind the strain of modern life and the futility of consumer society, living for years in seclusion on Monte Soratte, near Rome. One day he is discovered by a TV crew that, sniffing the scoop, film a report about him. From that moment, against his will, he gets sucked into civilization.
  
  ## Cast
  
  * Vittorio Gassman: Pietro Breccia, the hermit
  * Ann-Margret: Maggie, a hippy
  * Liana Orfei: Albertina, Puccio's sister
  * Fiorenzo Fiorentini: Luigi
  * Oreste Lionello: Puccio, Breccia's manager
  * Enzo Robutti: Alberto
  * Yvonne Sanson: Carla Bagni
  * Carmen Villani
  
  ## Production
  
  It was one of several films Ann-Margret made in Europe around this time.
  
  