After attending esoterical studies with a wise man, Cagliostro, a mysterious Italian count, received the gift of supernatural powers. He started to travel all over Europe to heal the poor. But he is also a member of a pre-revolutionary lodge the aim of which is to give freedom to the populations of Europe. This cannot be tolerated by the 18th century's establishment and bought the Pope and the regal house of France try to eliminate him. So Cagliostro is locked up in a castle, while his wife is killed. But when in 1795 the door of his cell is opened there is nothing inside but a sword...
as Count Alexander Cagliostro / Giuseppe Balsamo
as Cardinal Braschi
as Serafina Cagliostro
as The Queen
as Cardinal de Rohan
as Prelate in Rome
as Prelate in Rome
as Lorenza Balsamo
as Beggar in Rome
as A Paralytic Beggar
as A naturalist monk
as Pope Clement XIII
as Giacomo Casanova
as Morandi, News editor
as Mendacious cripple
as French noblewoman
as Mendacious mute
as Monk
as Napoleon (uncredited)