Charlemagne, le prince à cheval
Charlemagne, le prince à cheval is a 1993 television miniseries about the life of Charlemagne. It consists of five episodes and covers the period from the death of his father, Pepin the Short in AD 768 until Charlemagne's coronation as the first Holy Roman Emperor on Christmas Day, AD 800. However, there is a minor chronological anachronism: in an earlier episode, we see Widukind, the king of the Saxons surrender and convert to Christianity, which didn't happen until AD 803.
This program was directed by Clive Donner, which was the final project he worked on before dying on 7 September 2010 and based primarily on the contemporary biography of Charlemagne written by Einhard, who knew Charlemagne personally.Cast
- , as Charlemagne
- Anny Duperey, as Bertrada of Laon
- Lino Capolicchio, as Pope Leo III
- André Oumansky, as Pepin the Short
- Gilles Gaston-Dreyfus, as Einhard
- Xavier Deluc, as Roland
- Corinne Touzet, as Irène
- Paolo Bonacelli, as Vitale
- Vanni Corbellini, as Ganelon
- Pierre Anais, as Turpin
- Nils Tavernier, as Carloman I
- Anne De Broca, as Gerberga, Queen of the Franks
- Dominic Gould
- Carole Richert, as Himiltrude
- Cris Campion, as Pepin the Hunchback
- Sergio Fantoni, as Pope Adrian I
- Frank Finlay, as Alcuin of York
- Remo Girone, as King Desiderius
- Helmut Griem, as Widukind
