Deranged after a fall from a horse, a man has lived for twenty years in a castle laboring under the delusion that he is Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV. His psychiatrist concocts an elaborate scheme to shock him out of his medieval reverie.
Marcello Mastroianni
Henry IV
Claudia Cardinale
Matilda
Leopoldo Trieste
Psichiatra
Paolo Bonacelli
Belcredi
Gianfelice Imparato
Di Nolli
Claudio Spadaro
Lolo
Giuseppe Cederna
Fino Pagliuca
Giacomo Bertozzi
Giacomo
Fabrizio Macciantelli
Fabrizio
Luciano Bartoli
Henry IV (young)
Latou Chardons
Frida
Massimo Antonio Rossi
Young Belcredi (uncredited)
Marco Bellocchio
Director
Enzo Porcelli
Producer
Nov 16, 2017
Nov 15, 1985
Sep 9, 1994
Oct 30, 2025
Nov 29, 1973
Sep 5, 1960
Nov 7, 1980
Jan 29, 2026
Odyssia
IT
RAI
Italy
Italiano
