increasingly heinous crimes against his Catholic vocation and Italian society. Antonia is a young and innocent woman who first sees Ambrosio preaching and is immediately struck by his moral teachings. She is Elvire’s daughter, and Leonella’s niece. Antonia becomes engaged to Lorenzo during the film, but is supernaturally seduced by Ambrosio, and loses her mind because of it by the end of the film. The Devil is disguised as one of Ambrosio’s confessors who often frequents the monastery to hear his preaching. He appears in the opening scene, a scene where Ambrosio is preaching, and at the end where he reveals himself to be supernatural when he meets Ambrosio in the desert and offers him safety in return for his soul. Elvire is Antonia’s ill mother who lives with her daughter and sister in Madrid. She married the son of the wealthy Las Cisternas family, leading to his disinheritance and his eventual distain of her. After his death, she moved her daughter to Madrid and wishes her to marry in her station to avoid her life path. It is revealed that Ambrosio is her son after she confesses to having had a first born son with a hand mark that she deserted when fleeing her husband’s angry father. She is killed by Ambrosio with scissors when she discovers he and Antonia naked in bed together. Father Andres is the older monk who acts as a physician in the Capuchin monastery. He tries to heal Ambrosio after he is bitten by the poisonous centipede in the rose garden. Father Miguel is the monk who found Ambrosio outside of the Capuchin monastery when he was left. He acts as a confidant to Ambrosio before he dies in Ambrosio’s arms warning him of evil. Leonella is Antonia’s aunt and Elvire’s sister who is often chaperoning Antonia. Lorenzo is Antonia’s suitor from the wealthy Medina family. He spends the film getting permission to marry Antonia from her mother and his uncle and serenading Antonia outside of her window. Valerio is a demon who presents itself first as the burned and masked Valerio, then the seductive temptress who heals Ambrosio, seduces him, and helps him gain access to Antonia. Cast Vincent Cassel as Capucino Ambrosio Déborah François as Valerio Joséphine Japy as Antonia Catherine Mouchet as Elvire Geraldine Chaplin as l'abbesse Sergi López as The Devil Jordi Dauder as Père Miguel Roxane Duran as Sœur