Joakim Nätterqvist, Sofia Helin, Stellan Skarsgård
Arn, the son of a high-ranking Swedish nobleman is educated in a monastery and sent to the Holy Land as a knight templar to do penance for a forbidden love.
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A Scandinavian film based on the fictional character of Arn Magnusson and one of his crusades as a Knights Templar. The story is set from the Middle Ages, and tells the story of his life...( read more)
If you're expecting action you will be disappointed. There's a lot of slow scenes with talking and sometimes it gets too cheasy. Overall a great story with beautiful environments. Despite it's length I found it enjoyable all the way and I'm looking forward to the sequels.
I liked the 13th Warrior because they didn't speak their scandanavian language through the whole movie. I will give this a try in subtitles, but if I get bored it's switcher-off time baby!
Recommended. A very good movie, with strong scripting, acting and production.
But don't be fooled, this is not an action movie. It is a movie with action elements. Lots of politics and drama in this one (which just makes it better).
some parts in the movie when you have to feel sad or cry I laughed dunno why!!
If you want to see a great war and strategy in this movies. Don't hope you can see it in this movie. More than 60% of this film tells about the life of arn before he was recrutited as one of the knight of templar. There are to much a romantic story in it.
well a swed in fight for holy land, little unusual, but it's very nice story....
acting was good,
must watch part two as soon as i can
oj Sofia Helin is so beautiful
I've always said that I don't like movies, but after so many of my friends here in Sweden said that "it's actually good, even though it's Swedish", I thought I'd give Arn a try. And the movie surprised me! It actually WAS a good movie, even though it's Swedish! :D
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Theblackknight: I saw this movie yesterday, it was a lot of Latin spoken! and also Arabic!
The movie had its Swedish premiere yesterday :-)
I also saw a "behind the scenes" documentary on TV. As I suspected there will be no spoken Latin or Arabic (unfortunately), only Swedish and English.
Based on the novels of acclaimed author Jan Guillou it's the biggest Swedish movie project to this date with a budget of 210.000.000 SEK (~30.000.000 USD) for two movies, though it's currently going through some difficulties with the sponsors :-/
It's set in the same time period as Kingdom of Heaven (it even has some of the same main characters) and tells the epic story of a young boy named Arn Magnusson (Son of Magnus). After having a near brush with death, falling down an outer fortification wall Arn is raised by Cicerian monks as promise to God, made by his religious mother, for saving the boy's life (or so she thought).
The first time away from home is hard on the young boy. He finds the monastery life very tedious as he already has been schooled in both reading, writing, calculus and Latin by his mother. One of the monks tries a different approach in the boy's training; in secresy teaching him bowmanship, swordplay and riding. The monk is in fact a retired Knight Templar, one of many fateful events that will come to shape Arn's life.
When he reaches adulthood and is sent out of the monastery to return to his father's estate he has some difficulties coping with the savage world on the outside, being used to the life of a scholar, running water indoors and even sophisticated cooling solutions for storing food in the summer. Through his father's business associates he meets and falls in love with a girl; Cecilia Algotsdotter.
Unfortunately he has had a previous brief love affair with the girl's sister during the short time outside the monastery walls and this puts him in a great deal of trouble with the Roman Catholic Church. Not the fact that he has had pre-marital sex, but the fact that he has slept with two sisters. To make remedy for his "sins" he is sent to the Holy land as a Knight Templar for 20 years - a lifetime by medieval standards...
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