Henry IV (1984)

Original title

Enrico IV

Directed by

Marco Bellocchio

Genre

drama film

Country

Italy

Runtime

1h 35m

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 24 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man spends twenty years pretending to be the medieval emperor Henry IV after a fall from a horse. The film follows the consequences when his old friends and family visit his villa and challenge his carefully constructed delusion.

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What happens

Henry IV (Italian: Enrico IV) is a 1984 Italian drama film directed by Marco Bellocchio. It is based on the Luigi Pirandello play of the same name and has music by Astor Piazzolla. It was entered into the 1984 Cannes Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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