Arn %E2%80%93 The Knight Templar

Arn The Knight Templar Swedish Arn Tempelriddaren is a 2007 epic film based on Jan Guillous trilogy about the fictional Swedish Knight Templar Arn Magnusson. The film was released in December 2007 and the sequel, Arn The Kingdom at Roads End Arn Riket vid vgens slut, was released August 22, 2008, but both films were combined into a single cut for the English release on DVD in 2010. While the film is mostly in Swedish and most of the production was made in Sweden, the film is a joint production between Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland and Germany. With a total budget of around SEK 210 million ca. USmillion for both films, it is the most expensive production in Swedish cinema.

Arn Magnusson is a son of the powerful Folkung dynasty in the mid12th century. He grows up in a monastery belonging to the Cistercians. He is trained in archery, swordsmanship and horsemanship by a former Knight Templar, the brother Guilbert, who resides in the monastery. Arn is also discovered to be ambidextrous. One day while wandering the woods he encounters three men trying to force a young girl into marriage. When the girl begs Arn for help two of the men attack Arn, who kills them in selfdefense. Although the monks tell Arn he did nothing wrong, they question Guilbert training him into being a warrior. Guilbert replies that Arn is not meant to be a monk but is destined to be a soldier of God. When Arn leaves the monastery and returns to his family, he is soon pulled into the struggle between the powerful families, all fighting for the crown of Vstra Gtaland. He helps his friend Knut Eriksson to kill the old king Karl Sverkersson. This leads to war between the two factions Arn and his fiance Cecilia Algotsdotter are excommunicated for premarital relations in reality a plot to hurt Knut and are forced to undertake twenty years of penance, Cecilia in a convent and Arn as a Knight Templar in the Holy Land to fight against the Saracens.While pursuing a band of thieves, Arn comes across the very enemy of all Christendom, Saladin, and saves his life. Saladin thanks Arn by warning him away from Jerusalem, because he is leading a vast army towards the city. As Saladin marches upon Jerusalem, Arn is given the order to intercept the Saracens before they reach the city, and they successfully ambush Saladins army in a mountain pass the ambush taking the place of the historical Battle of Montgisard figuring in the novel. The movie ends with Arn gaining a letter discharging him from his service in the Holy Land from the Templar Grandmaster Arnold of Torroja, and Cecilia giving praise to God on hearing news of Arns survival. ........

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