Good King Dagobert
Good King Dagobert (French title: Le Bon Roi Dagobert; in Italian: Dagobert) is a 1984 French-Italian comedy film directed by Dino Risi and starring the French comedian Coluche. Its title comes from French "Le bon roi Dagobert" nursery rhyme, and though the cast contains historical characters the plot is fiction.
Plot
Dagobert, the dim, dirty, idle, cowardly and lecherous king of the Franks, is under pressure from his ministers and the Roman Catholic church to make his peace with Pope Honorius I. He undertakes a pilgrimage to Rome, seeking both an alliance and absolution for his countless sins. Repeatedly outwitted there by far wilier men and women, he returns home with a poisoned brooch for his queen, his plan being to remove her and marry an alleged daughter of the Byzantine emperor Heraclius. Pinning the brooch on her, he pricks his finger and dies from the poison. His ministers arrange for his corpse to be hauled into the sky at night from a high tower and then proclaim that he had ascended into heaven.
Cast
- Antonio Marsina
- Attilio Dottesio
- Carole Bouquet
- Claudia Cavalcanti
- Coluche
- Fortunato Arena
- Francesco Scali
- Fred Romano
- Gea Martire
- Giordano Falzoni
- Isabella Ferrari
- Jean-Pierre Rambal
- John Karlsen
- Michael Lonsdale
- Michel Roux
- Michel Serrault
- Moana Pozzi
- Nello Pazzafini
- Pietro Ceccarelli
- Pietro Torrisi
- Romano Puppo
- Sabrina Siani
- Salvatore Baccaro
- Ugo Tognazzi
- Venantino Venantini
More details
| author | Agenore Incrocci Dino Risi Gérard Brach |
|---|---|
| director | Dino Risi |
| editor | Alberto Gallitti |
| genre | comedy historical |
| keywords | absolution catholic church frank heraclius poison pope honorius i roman catholic church rome |
| musicBy | Guido De Angelis |
| producer | Jacques-Paul Bertrand Renzo Rossellini |
| publisher | Gaumont Film Company |
| theme | biographical |