Arn chevalier du temple rapidshare

I'm sorry I can't think of a better title for my comments. I thought of comparing it to "Kingdom of Heaven", the film trend in Hollywood, and a bunch of other things. But the one thing that really stands out for me is that it's just a good movie. But the film's history reminds me of a personal anecdote regarding one of my former managers early in my film career, and his effort to get a medieval epic off the ground in the late 80s regarding Robert the Bruce.

Without going into too much detail he lost control of the project, and the film that eventually came out of his efforts was "Braveheart", only "Braveheart" was the market competitor that was designed to compete with my manager's film, which never got made. So it is with "Arn the Templar" in regards to "Kingdom of Heaven", only unlike my old boss's film "Arn the Templar" got off ground, and flourished into an impressive medieval Nordic epic.

There's little to criticize about this film, other than the drama itself never really hits a high point. But perhaps that's as it should be, because it seems a bit more real. There's little in the way of over dramatizing the characters, which obviously holds back a more emotional film. This in turn allows the background itself to become a character.

We're taken to medieval Europe and Outremar. The landscape is barren, harsh, and most of all for the audience, real. The north is rich when love is in bloom, but cold when violence reigns. In the wastes of Jerusalem all is hot, parched, and full of death. The desert runs with blood. The other plus in regards to this film are the costumes.

The actors are made to look of the land. Those who trudge the desert are covered in dust, dirt, and caked mud via perspiration. And the costumes look to be of the period. Unlike another film I reviewed, "", the armor in this film looks like armor of the period as with the rest of the costumes.

Such authenticity helps offset some of the notable lack of energy in the drama. In fact this film's art direction is perhaps superior to "Kingdom of Heaven". Why is that? Because there is no CGI in this film. SFX for this film go back to golden era Classic Hollywood; i. Everything you see is real. Which would help explain why this film was so expensive to make for Scandinavian film makers. Negatives, and there're a couple. There's maybe two, possibly three oddly cut sequences where the alleged degree camera rule is violated, and shots are put together in an unconventional way.

But it's so minor that you hardly notice it. The only other criticism I'd make is that the film feels like a Scandinavian effort to make a Hollywood film. Not that that in itself is a bad thing, after all Europes Scandinavian types are finally mining their culture and history for some quality films. All in all I liked what I saw. In fact I liked it better than "Kingdom of Heaven" for a number of reasons. First and foremost there are no real villains as such, and therefore unlike Ridley Scott's film this movie doesn't present us with one-dimensional sociopaths as the cause of main emotional propellant for the action.

Cecelia became pregnant and told her sister Katarina what happened between Arn and herself. Katarina, who would now become stuck in the nunnery where they each had spent half their time up till know, became jealous and found a plan for her to get out instead of her sister. Katarina thus told the Abbess that Cecelia had sinned with Arn, and was with child. Further she told, truthfully, about the fact that Arn also had carnal knowledge of her as well, from a party at her parents where a very young and drunk Arn had been seduced.

According to the laws of the Church, it was considered especially heinous and scandalous to have sexual intercourse with two women who had the same mother comparing it to having sex with your own daughter. Arn was condemned to spend 20 years in the Holy Land as a Knight Templar, while Cecelia was kept in the nunnery, and her newborn child taken away from her.

At the age of 27, Arn is already a veteran in the Crusader army, when he faces the strangest experience a Knight Templar can have. During a time of truce, while pursuing a band of Saracen thieves, he comes across the very enemy of all Christendom, Saladin , and saves his life.

After this, both become very close friends, but great enemies at the same time. Arn returns to his command of the fortress at Gaza, later seeing Saladin's army arrive but not stay to lay siege, instead advancing on a bigger prize, the city of Jerusalem.

Arn is given the order to march with all his knights, and they defeat Saladin's army at the Battle of Montgisard. In the Battle of Hattin , Arn is severely wounded and spends several weeks at Saladin's hospital in Damascus , after that he accompanies him to Jerusalem, which is conquered. In the very end of the second book, Richard the Lionheart comes to Palestine with an army of crusaders.

He captures Acre from Saladin, and when about to buy the freedom of 5, prisoners from the Christian king, Saladin and Arn were horrified to see Richard having them slaughtered, even the children "as the mamluks were riding, trying to save them, in tears.

He embraces Saladin, and then starts traveling home to Sweden , where a kingdom is about to be born. Photos 9. Top cast Edit. Milind Soman Saladin as Saladin. Driss Roukhe Fakhr as Fakhr. More like this. Watch options.

Storyline Edit. Action Drama Romance War. Rated R for violence. Add content advisory. Did you know Edit. Goofs In the era in which this series takes place, Swedes, Norwegians, and Danes still spoke the same language, albeit with distinct accents.

User reviews 6 Review. Top review. The miniseries reviewed here is actually a compilation of two feature length movies, which were very successful in Scandanavia, and as a result of that success, were shown on television in the form of a six-part miniseries.

But the running time is pretty close to identical. The two films, minus opening and closing credits, run about minutes; each episode there are six runs about 43 minutes, minus opening and closing credits, for a total of minutes. So the reason it looks like a feature film is because it IS a feature film.

As to the content, it's a love story, but the lovers are divided by war and circumstance, so the bulk of it is devoted to how they cope even though they are divided.