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15% of people buy Alatriste and Sword of War ~ DVD.
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Release date Australia
June 9th, 2008
DVD Region
Region 4
Length (Minutes)
147
Languages
Spanish
Subtitles
English
Director
Studio
Product ID
1555896
Description
Viggo Mortensen leads an all-star cast in this swashbuckling period drama - the story of Diego Alatriste, a former soldier and mercenary who becomes a hero of Spain's 17th century Imperial wars.
The most expensive Spanish-language film ever made based on the wildly popular novel series by Arturo Pérez Reverte.
17th century imperial Spain under the reign of Philip IV, a weak and easily manipulated monarch dominated by a corrupt and intrigue-ridden court, the head of which is the influential Count-Duke Olivares. Intrigue and betrayal, duels and battles, love and hatred set the stage for the adventures of Captain Alatriste.
In His Majesty's service, a proud soldier in Flanders and in times of peace, a hired sword in Madrid and Seville. He wasn't the most virtuous of men, nor the most devout, but he was a man of valour. His name was Diego Alatriste!
Alatriste is in love with the beautiful María de Castro, the most famous actress of her time. Compelled to fulfil the final wish of his dying friend, Alatriste makes his way back to Spain to care for the man's young son Iñigo. Alatriste attempts to safeguard Iñigo both from a military career and from the Machiavellian woman he loves, the sweet and disturbing Angelica Alquézar.
The most expensive Spanish-language film ever made based on the wildly popular novel series by Arturo Pérez Reverte.
17th century imperial Spain under the reign of Philip IV, a weak and easily manipulated monarch dominated by a corrupt and intrigue-ridden court, the head of which is the influential Count-Duke Olivares. Intrigue and betrayal, duels and battles, love and hatred set the stage for the adventures of Captain Alatriste.
In His Majesty's service, a proud soldier in Flanders and in times of peace, a hired sword in Madrid and Seville. He wasn't the most virtuous of men, nor the most devout, but he was a man of valour. His name was Diego Alatriste!
Alatriste is in love with the beautiful María de Castro, the most famous actress of her time. Compelled to fulfil the final wish of his dying friend, Alatriste makes his way back to Spain to care for the man's young son Iñigo. Alatriste attempts to safeguard Iñigo both from a military career and from the Machiavellian woman he loves, the sweet and disturbing Angelica Alquézar.
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Customer reviews
"One of my favourite movies of all time"
If I die watching the end of this movie, I will die a happy man.
Like The Princess Bride, and although it cannot portray the historical
commentary and criticism of the weaknesses of the Spanish nobility of the time,
that the authour of the books describes at length, it nevertheless has
everything else that a lover of sword and buckler romantic fiction might wish:
action, suspense, love and hate, pathos and joy, beauty and the horror of face
to face warfare, the quetionable morality of the assassin for hire.
Unless you just cannot stomach watching subtitled movies, you MUST see
this film.
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