June 17, 2008
Theblackknight: I saw this movie yesterday, it was a lot of Latin spoken! and also Arabic!
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December 17, 2007The 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. -
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August 31, 2007
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). -
August 31, 2007
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.
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August 31, 2007
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.
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August 31, 2007
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...
