Good King Dagobert

Good King Dagobert
Film poster
Directed by	Dino Risi
Written by	Dino Risi Age & Scarpelli Gérard Brach
Story by	Age & Scarpelli
Produced by	Renzo Rossellini
Starring	Ugo Tognazzi Coluche Michel Serrault
Cinematography	Dante Ferretti
Music by	Guido De Angelis & Maurizio De Angelis
Distributed by	Gaumont
Release date	1984
Running time	118 minutes
Countries	Italy France
Languages	Italian French

Good King Dagobert (French title: Le bon roi Dagobert; in Italian: Dagobert) is a 1984 French-Italian film directed by Dino Risi.

Plot

The film is inspired by a popular song against the French monarchy, created during the French Revolution.

During the 7th century, the lazy and messy King Dagobert I goes to Rome to ask Pope Honorius I for forgiveness of his sins of revelry and fornication. But Dagobert does not know that the pope, while he is still traveling, was replaced in a conspiracy by a perfect double. The replacement is a crude and rude man, even more stupid than Dagobert is.

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

External links

• Good King Dagobert at IMDb