CAST:
Vittorio Gassman (Brancaleone da Norcia),
Catherine Spaak (Matelda),
Folco Lulli (Pecoro),
Gian Maria Volonte (Teofilatto dei Leonzi),
Maria Grazia Buccella (udovica)

SCRIPT:
Agenore Incrocci,
Mario Monicelli,
Furio Scarpelli

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Carlo Di Palma

Synopsis:
A German knight dies while trying to defend a small Italian village from a group of robbers. His murderers throw the body in the river and among his things they discover a deed of donation given to the knight by the Roman emperor himself. With this deed the knight became the owner of a piece of land in Apulia in South Italy. A group of people, led by the naďve knight Brancaleone set off on a mission to find the land and take it for themselves.

color, 120 min