Red Sonja (film)
Red Sonja is a 1985 DutchAmerican sword and sorcery action film directed by Richard Fleischer. The film introduces Brigitte Nielsen as the title character with Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sandahl Bergman, Ronald Lacey, Ernie Reyes, Jr., Paul L. Smith and Pat Roach in supporting roles. The film features the swordwielding Marvel Comics character Red Sonja, created by Roy Thomas, who first appeared in Marvels Conan the Barbarian seriesin 1973. Red Sonja was based on Red Sonya of Rogatino, a character created by Robert E. Howard appearing in his short story The Shadow of the Vulture 1934. The film acknowledges that it was based on the character created by Robert E. Howard in the introductory credits.
After being raped by the soldiers of Queen Gedren, a despot who had her parents and brother murdered for scarring the queens face while rejecting her sexual advances, Red Sonja is visited by a spirit who grants her the strength to seek revenge. Having trained under a sword master and becoming distrustful of most men, Red Sonja is found by Lord Kalidor, who takes her to her dying sister Varna. Varna is a member of an order of priestesses who were preparing to destroy a lightpowered relic known as the Talisman that created the world and whose growing power now threatens it. However, Gedrens army and her aidedecamp Ikol slaughtered the priestesses and took the Talisman while Varna was fatally wounded by the time she found Kalidor. Before dying, Varna tells Sonja of the events at her temple while urging her to find the Talisman and destroy it. After turning down Kalidors offer to accompany her, seeing a storm in the distance, Sonya arrives to the nowruined kingdom of Hablock. There she meets the young Prince Tarn and his servant Falkon, learning Gedren completely wiped out Hablock when Tarn refused to surrender. Tarn announces that he is raising a new army to crush Gedren and invites Sonja to work for him as a cook. She declines while told that Gedren is based in Berkubane, the Kingdom of Eternal Night.Sonja kills Lord Brytag after he refuses her passage through the mountain passes. His troops surround Sonja, and Kalidor, who has secretly been following her, attacks their rear, allowing Sonja to escape. Sonja comes across Tarn and Falkon in the mountains. Tarn is being tortured by bandits. Falkon rejoins Sonja to help her kill the brigands and free the prince. They travel onward toward Berkubane. At Castle Berkubane, Gedren and Ikol watch Sonja and her party approaching on a magic screen. Gedren recognizes Sonja and orders that she be brought back to the fortress unharmed. She and Ikol use the Talisman to conjure up a storm, forcing Sonjas band to take shelter in a wat
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