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ITALY · 1984
Henry IV
Synopsis
Deranged after a fall from a horse, a man has lived for twenty years in a castle laboring under the delusion that he is Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV. His psychiatrist concocts an elaborate scheme to shock him out of his medieval reverie.
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mental illness · delusion · identity · psychiatric treatment · medieval fantasy
