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Tirant lo Blanc

Constantinople, XV century. The ladies' complot

Constantinople, 1401. The emperor of Byzantium asks the famous knight Tirant lo Blanc to free the city from the siege of the Turks. After his victory, Tirant will have to face a more difficult task: to overcome the natural opposition of Carmesina, heiress to the Ottoman Empire, to surrender her most precious treasure.

Date of release
2006-04-07
TMDB
4.1 / 10 (41)
Runtime
2h 8m
Genres
Adventure
Director
Vicente Aranda

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Istanbul, Barcelona, Madrid, and Almería

Tirant lo Blanc is a 2006 historical adventure film directed by Vicente Aranda and starring Casper Zafer, Esther Nubiola, Leonor Watling and Victoria Abril. The script was written by Aranda based on Tirant lo Blanch, a Catalan language chivalry romance dating to 1490, written by Joanot Martorell. It presents a highly fictionalized alternate history narrative of the events leading to the Fall of Constantinople.

Production and cast

The film was shot in English. It was filmed in Madrid, Istanbul, Palermo, Granada, Huelva, Barcelona and Valencia. The title sequence features four paintings by Paolo Uccello: Saint George and the Dragon in National Gallery, London, and three versions of The Battle of San Romano.

Rafael Amargo as the Grand Turk Mehmed II

Jay Benedict as the Turkish Ottoman Ambassador

Victoria Abril as Ines, the 'Placid Widow'

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