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.

Credits

Marco BellocchioDirector

Marcello MastroianniHenry IV

Claudia CardinaleMatilda

Leopoldo TriestePsichiatra

Paolo BonacelliBelcredi