Groppone da Ficulle

Avrete sentuto, suppongo, lo nome di Groppone da Ficulle. [...] 

Groppone da Ficulle fue lo più grande capitan di Tuscia.

E io son colui che con un sol colpo d'ascia lo tagliò in due.

Lo mio nome – stare attenti! – lo mio nome est Brancaleone da Norcia!

It is with these phrases that Brancaleone da Norcia presents himself in one of the most famous scenes of the masterpiece of Italian cinema "L'Armata Brancaleone", indissolubly tying his name to that of our village. Directed by Mario Monicelli in 1966 and masterfully interpreted by Vittorio Gassman, in the territory that goes from the Crete Senesi of the Val d'Orcia to the Tuscia of Viterbo (without however stopping in Ficulle, or Figulle if you prefer), the film tells in a finely intelligent way and extremely hilarious the adventures of the medieval knight Brancaleone da Norcia, the only and destitute scion of a fallen noble family, gifted with eloquence and animated by healthy virtues and chivalrous principles, together with a bizarre army with which he embarks on his daring and memorable expedition along the peninsula in the direction of the fiefdom of Aurocastro in Puglia. A film that has been defined as timeless for its eternal modernity, and which still today, after more than 50 years from its first release, continues to fascinate and surprise.

All the places mentioned in the film are absolutely fictitious, as well as the historical characters, including Groppone himself from Figulle.

However, the pleasure of imagining the adventures of the legendary Brancaleone from Norcia and Groppone from Figulle remains, at least until the first cut him in two, while the bizarre army sets off to the tune of "Branca, Branca, Branca, Leon, Leon , Leon ".