Good King Dagobert
1984 film by Dino Risi
- 1984 (1984)
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France
French
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,[1][2] 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
- Coluche - Dagobert I
- Michel Serrault - Otarius
- Ugo Tognazzi - Pope Honorius and his look-alike
- Carole Bouquet - Héméré
- Isabella Ferrari - Chrodilde
- Michael Lonsdale - Saint Eligius
- Venantino Venantini - Demetrius, merchant
- Karin Mai - Nanthild, the Queen
- Francesco Scali - Landek
- Antonio Vezza - Rutilius
- Sabrina Siani - Berthilde
- Marcello Bonini Olas - Heraclius, the Emperor of Byzance
- Isabella Dandolo - Alpaide
- Federica Paccosi - Ragnetrude
- Gea Martire - Philliria
References
External links
- Good King Dagobert at IMDb
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Films directed by Dino Risi
- Vacation with a Gangster (1951)
- Il viale della speranza (1953)
- Love in the City (1953)
- The Sign of Venus (1955)
- Scandal in Sorrento (1955)
- Poor But Beautiful (1957)
- Pretty But Poor (1957)
- Oh! Sabella (1957)
- Venice, the Moon and You (1958)
- Poor Millionaires (1958)
- The Widower (1959)
- Love and Larceny (1960)
- Love in Rome (1960)
- A Difficult Life (1961)
- Behind Closed Doors (1961)
- Il Sorpasso (1962)
- March on Rome (1962)
- I mostri (1963)
- The Thursday (1964)
- The Dolls (1965)
- The Gaucho (1965)
- Complexes (1965)
- Weekend, Italian Style (1965)
- I nostri mariti (1966)
- Treasure of San Gennaro (1966)
- The Tiger and the Pussycat (1967)
- Mr. Kinky (1968)
- Torture Me But Kill Me with Kisses (1968)
- I See Naked (1969)
- Normal Young Man (1969)
- The Priest's Wife (1970)
- That's How We Women Are (1971)
- In the Name of the Italian People (1971)
- Dirty Weekend (1973)
- How Funny Can Sex Be? (1973)
- Scent of a Woman (1974)
- The Career of a Chambermaid (1976)
- The Forbidden Room (1977)
- The Bishop's Bedroom (1977)
- Viva Italia! (1977)
- First Love (1978)
- Dear Father (1979)
- I'm Photogenic (1980)
- Sunday Lovers (1980)
- Fantasma d'amore (1981)
- Sesso e volentieri (1982)
- Good King Dagobert (1984)
- Madman at War (1985)
- Il commissario Lo Gatto (1986)
- Teresa (1987)
- I'll Be Going Now (1990)
- Vita coi figli (1991)
- Poor But Beautiful (1996)
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