Brancaleone at the Crusades

(1970)

★ 7.2 IMDb · 166 votes

Genres: Comedy, Adventure

Year: 1970

Runtime: 120 мин

Country: Italy, Algeria

Director: Mario Monicelli

Cast: Vittorio Gassman, Адольфо Чели, Sandro Dori, Beba Lončar, Gigi Proietti, Gianrico Tedeschi, Паоло Вилладжо, Lino Toffolo, Стефания Сандрелли, Gianluigi Crescenzi

Plot

After saving an infant of royal blood, knight Brancaleone forms a new army and sets out to return the baby to his father: a prince fighting in the Crusades.

Brancaleone and his followers go to the crusades. God allows them a safe crossing of the Mediteranean. Except that they did not sail on the sea but on a... lake! Brancaleone soon finds himself caught in the middle of a feud between... two popes, Gregory and Clement. In order to determine which of the two men is the true pope, Brancaleone must walk on hot coals. After this ordeal, accompanied by a dwarf, a witch, a leper and a masochistic penitent, Brancaleone continues his quest.In the Holy Land, he fights the unfaithful before facing Death in person. He is eventually saved by Tiburzia the witch who is reincarnated in the form of a magpie