Direction:

Marco Bellocchio

Screenplay:

Marco Bellocchio, Tonino Guerra,

Cinematography:

Giuseppe Lanci.

Editing:

Mirco Garrone

Sound:

Remo Ugolinelli

Sets:

Giancarlo Basili, Leonardo Scarpa

Costumes:

Lina Nerli Taviani

Music:

Astor Piazzolla

Cast:

Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Leopoldo Trieste, Paolo Bonacelli, Latou Chardons, Gianfelice Imparato, Claudio Spadaro, Giuseppe Cederna, Giacomo Bertozzi, Fabrizio Macciantelli, Luciano Bartoli.

Producer:

Enzo Porcelli

Production:

RAI TV, rete 2, Odyssia (Italy).

35mm Colour 95'
Italy 1984

After falling off a horse at a fancy-dress ball, a young aristocrat becomes convinced that he is Henry IV, Emperor of Germany. He locks himself up in a castle and lives as if he were in the 11th century, surrounded by servants dressed in medieval costumes. Twenty years later, a group of friends and relatives visit him at his castle, together with a psychiatrist, with the intention of shocking him out of his delusion...