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Good King Dagobert (1984)

Good King Dagobert poster
Original title
Le Bon Roi Dagobert
Directed by
Dino Risi
Genre
comedy film, biographical film, medieval film
Country
France, Italy
Runtime
1h 58m
Rated
U
Rating
4.2 of 10 from 35 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A fictional comic adventure follows the historical King Dagobert as he gets into absurd situations. The movie is based on a French nursery rhyme and treats history as a joke.

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What happens

Good King Dagobert (French title: Le Bon Roi Dagobert; in Italian: Dagobert) is a 1984 French-Italian historical 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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