Arn: The Knight Templar

Arn: The Knight Templar (2007)

Arn: Tempelriddaren

A Knight in the Holy Land. A Woman in the Frozen North. A War that Kept Them Apart.

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.

Date of release
2007-12-25
TMDB
6.3 / 10 (326)
Runtime
2h 19m
Genres
Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance
Director
Peter Flinth
Collection
Arn Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: Crusades tetralogy
  • Filmed in: Edinburgh
  • Awards: 0 · Nominations: 1

Arn: The Knight Templar is an epic film based on Jan Guillou's trilogy about the fictional Swedish Knight Templar Arn Magnusson. The film was released to cinemas in Sweden on 17 December 2007 and the sequel, Arn – The Kingdom at Road's End, was released 22 August 2008, but both films were combined into a single cut for the English release on DVD in 2010. While the film is mostly in Swedish and most of the production was made in Sweden, the film is a joint production between Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland and Germany. With a total budget of around SEK 210 million for both films, it is the most expensive production in Swedish cinema.

Production

The film production was headed by Svensk Filmindustri in conjunction with Film i Väst, TV4 (Sweden), Danmarks Radio (Denmark), YLE (Finland), TV 2 (Norway) and Telepool (Germany). With a total budget of around US $30,000,000 for the whole production, it is the most expensive production in Scandinavian film history.

Most of the Swedish scenes were filmed in the province of Västergötland. Other scenes were filmed in Scotland and Morocco. Most of the actors in the film speak Swedish, while others speak Latin, English, and French. The scenes in the Holy Land use English (although historically it would have been Medieval Latin and Old French) and Arabic, including quotations from the Qur'an.

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