Arn – The Kingdom at Road's End
| Arn – The Kingdom at Road's End | |
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| Directed by | Peter Flinth |
| Produced by | Waldemar Bergendahl |
| Written by |
Jan Guillou (novels) Hans Gunnarsson (screenplay) |
| Starring |
Joakim Nätterqvist Sofia Helin Stellan Skarsgård Milind Soman |
| Narrated by | Sven-Bertil Taube |
| Music by | Tuomas Kantelinen |
| Distributed by | AB Svensk Filmindustri |
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| Country | Sweden Finland Norway United Kingdom Denmark Germany |
| Language |
Swedish Norwegian English Danish Arabian |
| Budget |
SEK210,000,000 (ca. US$30,000,000) (total budget of both films) |
Arn – The Kingdom at Road's End (Swedish: Arn – Riket vid vägens slut) is an epic film based on Jan Guillou's trilogy about the fictional Swedish Knights Templar Arn Magnusson. It was released to cinemas in Sweden on 22 August 2008 and is the sequel to the 2007 film Arn – The Knight Templar, but both films were combined into a single cut for the English release on DVD in 2010.
Filmed in Scotland, Sweden, Damascus, Syria and Morocco.
The plot of the film loosely follows the book of the same name – the third volume of the Crusades trilogy, spanning the period of about 1187 to 1205.
Arn is the commander of a Templar garrison in Gaza. He is commanded to join a Templar force intercepting the army of Saladin. Due to the arrogance of the new Templar Grandmaster Gerard de Ridefort, the Crusaders are destroyed in the ensuing Battle of Hattin. Arn is wounded but Saladin recognizes him and saves Arn from execution. Arn wakes in Damascus, his wounds treated; Saladin sends him home with his friendship as he prepares to take Jerusalem.
Cecilia is finally allowed to leave the monastery where she has done penance for twenty years, meeting her son Magnus for the first time. She soon hears of the fall of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Templars and believing Arn dead decides to become a nun for the rest of her life, being offered the post of Abbess by the Folkung clan. Arn meets her as she is just about to enter the convent, and they marry at last, building an estate, Forsvik, where Arn has gathered craftsmen from all over Europe and the Holy Land. Arn is introduced to his son Magnus, born in his absence; after a little time a daughter named Alde is born, and Forsvik grows rapidly. Arn takes young men and boys to become knights-in-training.
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