

Overall it is excellent and well worth watching if you’re a fan of a certain kind of movie. It’s a lavish historical epic, spanning medieval Sweden and Palestine during the Crusades, featuring an outstanding International cast.

Not that the home front is at peace, as rivalries for the throne threaten war and foreign invasion. Each has to survive their twenty-year sentence to reunite their family. On coming of age, Arn leaves the Abbey, duels for his father’s honour, then has a child with Cecilia, who is betrothed to a favourite of the hated King.Īs punishment, Cecilia is sent to the convent Arn is enlisted in the Knights Templar to fight for the Holy Land. Part of his education is in combat, from a former Templar knight retired to Holy Orders. Nobleman’s son Arn Magnusson is given to the monks of the abbey in thanks to God for recovering from illness.
