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• Subtitles: Norwegian, Finnish, Danish
• Region: Region 2 (Read more about DVD formats.)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (71 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001H606S2
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #479,738 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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(English) Arn, the son of a high-ranking Swedish nobleman is educated in a monastery and sent to the Holy Land as a knight templar to do penance for a forbidden love. (Swedish) Historien om Arn och Cecilia utspelar sig i Sverige och Det Heliga Landet med ett rikt galleri av modiga riddare, mäktiga drottningar och svekfulla kungar. Det är en berättelse om krig och intriger, vänskap och svek, men också en berättelse om stor kärlek. År 1150 föds Arn Magnusson på Arnäs gård i Västra Götaland. Han uppfostras i kloster och blir en bildad ung man och en skicklig krigare. I Cecilia möter han den stora kärleken, en kärlek som gör dem till offer för striden mellan den andliga och världsliga makten. Cecilia spärras in i kloster och Arn skickas som tempelriddare till Det Heliga Landet där kriget rasar mellan kristna och muslimer. När Arn återvänder hem måste han kämpa för sin kärlek och det som har blivit hans livsmål: att ena Sverige till ett enda rike.

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156 of 166 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars worthy, but truncated, October 12, 2010

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Cannucklehead Film Addict (Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Arn: The Knight Templar [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray)

A good film in its own right, but still, not the original. I contacted the Swedish producers and they said that there were no plans to release the film in its original shape. The film began life as a TV miniseries, of several hours in length (I think about 6). It was released theatrically in Scandanavia as two films, each about two and a half hours long; and released in this, much shorter, so-called International version, i.e., a dumber, action-oriented version supposedly to appeal to us poorly educated North Americans. Sigh. Since this is likely the only version that will ever be released in Region A, you'd be better off getting it rather than waiting for a (so far purely hypothtetical) longer version. If you have a multi-region blu-ray player, it might be possible to order the two, Scandinavian discs, if you can find them at all, that is.

61 of 63 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Way They Used to Make Them, October 17, 2010

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William Amazzini - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Arn: The Knight Templar (DVD)

Reading the Amazon reviews within this release, I was taken aback by the fact that this was a Swedish miniseries and that this dvd release by E1 entertainment is a truncated version. Well, truncated is better than nothing. It is magnificent and harkens back to the old tried and true epics we fondly remember. The director ,Peter Flinth, has given us a grand epic of honor and treachery all focused on the love story between Arn and Cecilia with religion, once again, separating true love. It contains so much passion with some great performances within its structure. You will recognize of course Bibi Anderson as the mother superior and Sven Bertil Taube ( the only other movie I know of his is a guilty pleasure- 'PUPPET ON A CHAIN') as the Bishop also Steven Waddington from 'THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS' as the Grand Master of the Templar Knights. Sorry, I'm a sucker for these type of epics and this one reinforces my belief that other countries are making incredible product. If you want an uplifting, soaring piece of filmmaking with breathtaking photography and a rousing music score by Toomas Kantelinen, click the add to cart button. I just can't figure out why nobody has signed the actor who played Saladin-Milind Soman- to other projects over here. He really steals the show. The release has two great featurettes on the making of the film which brings you up to speed on the production. Highly recommended.

60 of 70 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars What a Great Surprise, October 14, 2010

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Eric Sanberg (Berwyn, IL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Arn: The Knight Templar (DVD)

I knew nothing of this film until I started seeing advances on the video release. It's definitely my kind of flick so I thought I'd give it a shot and I'm glad I did.

This is a really good story in the historical epic category. It propounds to be based in fact and, though I don't know how much they had to tweek it for script purposes, it contains certain things that feel true.

Arn is a Swede who falls in love with a woman who is betrothed to another family. He knocks her up so she has to do 20 years in a convent while he has to do twenty years in the Crusades as a Knight Templar. As he himself was raised by the church he's a very serious dude. He was also schooled well in combat by a monk who did time in the Crusades so he can fight with the best of them. He heads off to the Holy Land where he becomes key in winning some battles. His time is up so he heads home to be with his woman but ends up facing a whole new challenge. It seems Sweden isn't all that united and there is a new grab for power he needs to thwart.

This is an Historical Epic in the best sense. Great locations, costumes and lots of extras. You like Arn. He's a cool guy because he's good and devout, but can kick booty if he needs to. You like Cecelia his girlfriend. She's pretty and has a good spirit. It's acted well, shot well, edited well. The music score is good, though maybe a bit too similar to the "Lord of the Rings" score but that's a minor quibble. I also could have used a bit more in the building of the relationship between the two Cecelias, but again, it's a minor quibble. Surprisingly, they spent little effort on the major battle scenes. Were this Ridley Scott or Antoine Fuqua we'd have been dazzled by meticulous staging and swordplay. But here the director just didn't seem that interested. It's as though the battle scenes were no more important than anything else going on. I could have used more there myself but they were good enough to get the point across and move me to the next scene.

This is a good, solid effort. It has all the right things in all the right measure. If you're disposed to this sort of thing then have at it. It's well worth your while.