After the town priest (Balian's half-brother) reveals that he ordered Balian's wife's body beheaded before burial, Balian inspects the priest thoroughly, noticing the priest had stolen his wife's necklace and kills him before fleeing the village.īalian joins his father, hoping to gain forgiveness and redemption for himself and his wife in Jerusalem. A Crusader passing through the village introduces himself as Balian's father, Baron Godfrey of Ibelin, and asks him to return with him to the Holy Land, but Balian declines. In 1184 France, Balian, a blacksmith, is haunted by his wife's recent suicide, after the death of their unborn child. On 23 December 2005, Scott released a director's cut, which received critical acclaim, with many reviewers calling it the definitive version of the film. Pictures in Germany and received mixed reviews upon theatrical release. The film was released on May 6, 2005, by 20th Century Fox in North America and United Kingdom and by Warner Bros. 1143–93).įilming took place in Ouarzazate, Morocco, where Scott had previously filmed Gladiator and Black Hawk Down, and in Spain, at the Loarre Castle ( Huesca), Segovia, Ávila, Palma del Río, and Seville's Casa de Pilatos and Alcázar. The screenplay is a heavily fictionalised portrayal of the life of Balian of Ibelin (ca. A French village blacksmith goes to the aid of the Kingdom of Jerusalem in its defence against the Ayyubid Muslim Sultan, Saladin, who is fighting to claim back the city from the Christians this leads to the Battle of Hattin. The story is set during the Crusades of the 12th century.
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