Il profeta (internationally released as Mr. Kinky and The Prophet) is a 1968 Italian comedy film directed by Dino Risi.

[1] 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.

[2] It was one of several films Ann-Margret made in Europe around this time.

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