Overview

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.

Genres

Cast

Marcello Mastroianni

Henry IV

Claude Cardinale

Matilda

Leopoldo Trieste

Psichiatra

Paolo Bonacelli

Belcredi

Gianfelice Imparato

Di Nolli

Claudio Spadaro

Lolo

Giuseppe Cederna

Fino Pagliuca

Luciano Bartoli

Henry IV (young)

Massimo Antonio Rossi

Young Belcredi (uncredited)