Adapted from the mock-heroic poem in Roman dialect, tells the misadventures of the young trasteverino Bartolomeo Patacca that, because of the ambition of his woman, is having to train a group of beggars to go fight in defense of Christianity in Vienna, besieged by the Turks.
Gigi Proietti Enzo Cerusico Marilù Tolo Mario Scaccia Nanda Primavera Francesco Mulè Marco Tulli Adriano Micantoni Umberto Di Grazia Fausto Di Bella Fortunato Cecilia Ettore Zamperini Ennio Colaianni Ettore Arena Fortunato Arena Igino Cantoni Mario Cianfanelli Luigi Antonio Guerra Antonio Linich Pino Patti Alessandro Perrella Alan Talman Max Turilli Rosalba Neri Augusta Di Vincenzi
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