Krzyzacy (1960)
Knights of the Black Cross (1960)
720p HDTV | MKV | 1280 x 544 | x264 @ ~ 3600 Kbps | 170 min | 4,75 Gb
Audio: Polish AC3 5.1 @ 384 Kbps | Subs: English (srt)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
720p HDTV | MKV | 1280 x 544 | x264 @ ~ 3600 Kbps | 170 min | 4,75 Gb
Audio: Polish AC3 5.1 @ 384 Kbps | Subs: English (srt)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
A tale of a young impoverished nobleman, who with his uncle returns from a war against the order of the Teutonic Knights in Lithuania. He falls in love with a beautiful woman and pledges an oath to bring her "three trophies" from the Teutonic Knights.
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Also known as:
- Knights of the Teutonic Order
- Black Cross
KNIGHTS OF THE TEUTONIC ORDER, based on the novel by Nobel winner Henryk Sienkiewicz, is full of intensely melodramatic conflicts and nonstop action; Sienkiewicz's fiction was more in the mold of THE THREE MUSKETEERS and IVANHOE than WAR AND PEACE, and the source material makes for a highly entertaining movie. The epic scope is quite impressive (fully comparable to Hollywood epics of the same era, like QUO VADIS or SPARTACUS). The setting will be unfamiliar to many audiences (Poland and Prussia in the middle ages), but the plight of the Polish knight Jurand as he and his family are tormented by the dastardly Teutonic Knights is emotionally involving.IMDB Reviewer
Krzyzacy (1960)
Polish cinema is always good at adapting heroic war films like Potop or Ogniem I Mieczem. This one, based upon the book of the Noble Prize winner, Henryk Sienkiewycz, is a real hit. The directors managed to adapt this large and serious historical novel to a screen version. The plot tells about the wars between Poland and the Knights who were called the Crerss Bearers and lived in old Prussia nearby. The thrilling story tells about two brave and valiant Polish knights, Macko and Zbyszek. This story has everything - love story, tragedy of the Polish people being oppressed by the knights of Prussia, the heroic struggle, and on top of it all, the Grunwald Battle, that was the deafening defeat of the Prussian knights and lead to the changes in their history after that. Music, operators' work, actors' play, especially the parts of Henryk Borowski and Mieczyslaw Voit are impeccable. This is a fine example of the classic Polish battle movies.IMDB Reviewer
Krzyzacy (1960)
