Product Details

• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Winstar
• VHS Release Date: September 18, 1997
• Run Time: 50 minutes
• ASIN: 6304391609
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #538,493 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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Explore the ancient values and ethics of combat expressed in the new codes of f encing throughout Europe, from the 16th century renaissance through today. Uncover the ge nesis of the challenges, the choosing of seconds, the crafting and selection of swords and pistols ... how they fought and how they died.
Dramatic segments include: a reenactment of the famed duel between Barons Von Ropp and Tr autmansdorf; the deadliest duel "au mouchoir," a duel fought with a pistol in the right ha nd and the left hand holding a shared handkerchief-a yard apart; duellers of today, young men in Austria continuing the amazing tradition of Mensur, the bloody student duel.