Good King Dagobert (1963)
Comedy
Overview
Mr. Pelletan's rascal son Bébert son got another F for playing in class. His punishment is an essay on the Merovingian king Dagobert. All they know is he had eight wives and reunited Francia. The ignorant knave's irreverent imagination turns that into a harem and a ludicrous war without armies, loaded with anachronisms, in a race against rival king Charibert for the crown of Reims. The king's right hand, archbishop Eloi, the later patrons saint of carpentry, is portrayed as an inventor.
Cast
- Fernandel as M. Pelletan / Le roi Dagobert
- Gino Cervi as Saint Éloi
- Darío Moreno as Charibert
- Marthe Mercadier as Mme Pelletan / Gomatrude
- Jean Tissier as Le grand connétable
- Michel Galabru as Pépin
- Pierre Doris as Césaric la Crapule
- Georges Lycan as L'espion de grande taille
- Henri Virlogeux as L'instituteur
- Max Amyl as Le père supérieur