Brancaleone at the Crusades

Brancaleone at the Crusades

Infobox_Film
name = Brancaleone at the Crusades


imdb_id = 0065489
writer = Agenore Incrocci,
Furio Scarpelli,
Mario Monicelli
starring = Vittorio Gassman,
Adolfo Celi,
Stefania Sandrelli,
Beba Loncar,
Gigi Proietti,
Lino Toffolo,
Paolo Villaggio
director = Mario Monicelli
producer = Mario Cecchi Gori
distributor = Titanus Film
released = 1970
runtime = 116 min.
language = Italian
music = Carlo Rustichelli
awards =
budget =

"Brancaleone at the Crusades" ( _it. Brancaleone alle Crociate) is an Italian comedy film directed by Mario Monicelli in 1970, the sequel of the famous "L'armata Brancaleone".

Plot

The film starts where "L'armata Brancaleone" has ended. Brancaleone da Norcia (again played by Vittorio Gassman) is a poor but proud Middle Ages knight leading his bizarre and ragtag "army" of underdogs. However, he loses in a battle all his "warriors" and therefore meets the Death's incarnation (a clear parody of Bergman's "Seventh Seal"). Having obtained more time to live, he form a new tattered band. When Brancaleone saves an infant of royal blood, they set on to the Holy Sepulchre to bring him back to his father, Bohemund of Taranto (Adolfo Celi), which is fighting in the Crusades. As in the first film, in his quest he lives a series of grotesque episodes, each a hilarious parody of Middle Ages stereotypes. These include: the saving of a young witch (Stefania Sandrelli) from the stake, the annexion of a leper to the band, and a meeting with Gregory VII, in which Brancaleone has to solve the dispute between the pope and the antipope Clement III. On reaching Palestine, Brancaleone obtains the title of baron by the child's father. He is therefore chosen as a champion in a tournament to solve the dispute between the Christians and the Saracens in the siege of Jerusalem. The award for the winner is the former leper, who has revealed to be instead a beautiful princess, Berta, who adopted the disguise to travel to the Holy Land in relative safety. After having nearly defeated all the Moor warriors, Brancaleone is however defeated by a spell cast on him by the witch, who has fallen in love with him. He starts therefore to wander in despair in the desert, and again the Death comes to claim her credit: but Brancaleone is saved by the witch, who gives herself in exchange.

Cast

* Vittorio Gassman - Brancaleone da Norcia
* Adolfo Celi - Re Boemondo
* Stefania Sandrelli - Tiburzia da Pellocce
* Beba Loncar - Berta d'Avignone
* Gigi Proietti - Pattume, Colombino
* Lino Toffolo - Panigotto
* Paolo Villaggio - Thorz
* Gianrico Tedeschi - Pantaleo
* Sandro Dori - Rozzone
* Shel Shapiro - Zenone (as Norman David Shapiro)

Trivia

*One of characters of the film refers to having been raped in Battipaglia, in Puglia. However, this city was founded only in 1829.

External links

* [http://www.cinematografo.it/dati/scheda.asp?sch=21462 Film page (in Italian)]
* [http://entertainment.msn.com/movies/movie.aspx?m=177397 Film page (in English)]


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