The Lady Godiva (1928)
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上映時間 : 22分
演出 : George J. Banfield, Leslie Eveleigh
シノプシス
Account of Lady Godiva's naked ride through 11th-century Coventry in order to force her husband, the Earl of Mercia, to rescind his harsh tax laws. Based on and quotes from Tennyson's poem of the same title.
Returning to his homeland after years of slavery, a Norman prince seeks revenge on his father's murderer – his ruthless uncle, Earl Durant. Gaining the trust of a band of exiled farmers, he leads them into battle against Durant, exploiting them in his inexorable quest for vengeance. As one by one they are slaughtered in the brutal battle, will the prince sacrifice everything an everyone to fulfil his quest for blood?
11世紀イングランド、母親を亡くした少年ロブは弟妹と離れ離れになり、各地を旅して回る理容外科医に引き取られる。やがて成長したロブは医師を志すようになり、医学が発達した異国ペルシアのイスファハンへ旅立つ。数々の困難に見舞われながらも目的地に到着したロブは、世界的にも著名な医師イブン・シーナに弟子入りし貪欲に医学修業に励む。
11世紀のスペインに実在した若き武将、エル・シド。激しい宗教争い、そして政権争いのなか一時は国家追放になるが、祖国を救うため彼は立ち上がる。圧倒的スケールで描かれる一大史劇。出演はチャールトン・ヘストン、ソフィア・ローレンら。
Robin Hood fights nobly for justice against the evil Sir Guy of Gisbourne while striving to win the hand of the beautiful Maid Marian.
When Rudy, an artifacts smuggler, goes to Jerusalem to rescue his kidnapped archeologist father, he faces deportation by a scheming police chief. Now, to find his dad and recover a sacred scroll, he'll have to outwit officials and a ruthless sect. With the help of a beautiful Israeli cop, Rudy battles a faction of religious zealots determined to see a holy war at all costs.
シェイクスピアの同名戯曲を「SHAME -シェイム-」「スティーブ・ジョブズ」のマイケル・ファスベンダーと「エディット・ピアフ～愛の讃歌～」「サンドラの週末」のマリオン・コティヤール主演で映画化した歴史ドラマ。監督はオーストラリア出身で、デビュー作「スノータウン」に続いてこれが長編２作目の新鋭、ジャスティン・カーゼル。
激しい内戦で荒廃したスコットランド。ダンカン王に忠誠を誓うグラミスの領主マクベスは獅子奮迅の活躍で反乱軍を撃退、戦友バンクォーとともに戦場を後にしようとした時、彼の前に３人の魔女が現われ、マクベスがスコットランド王になると予言する。やがてマクベスは、夫の王位獲得に執着する夫人からダンカン王暗殺の計画を吹き込まれる。一度は覚悟を決めるも、やはり罪悪感から決行をためらってしまうマクベスだったが…。
森鴎外の同名小説を、八尋不二と依田義賢が共同で脚色し、溝口健二がメガホンをとった文芸作品。特に美術と撮影はレベルが高く、ヴェネチア国際映画祭で銀獅子賞を受賞した。美しいラストシーンは、ゴダールが「気狂いピエロ」において引用したことでも知られる。 平安時代末期、農民を救うため将軍にたてついた平正氏が左遷された。妻の玉木、娘の安寿と息子の厨子王は越後を旅している途中、人買いにだまされ離ればなれになってしまう。玉木は佐渡に、安寿と厨子王は丹後の山椒大夫に奴隷として売られた。きょうだいはそれから十年もの間、奴隷としての生活を続けるが、ついに意を決して逃げ出すことにする。しかし追っ手に迫られ、安寿は厨子王を逃すため池に身を投げるのだった。
Sir Walter Scott's classic story of the chivalrous Ivanhoe who joins with Robin of Locksley in the fight against Prince John and for the return of King Richard the Lionheart.
Scotland, 11th century. Driven by the twisted prophecy of three witches and the ruthless ambition of his wife, warlord Macbeth, bold and brave, but also weak and hesitant, betrays his good king and his brothers in arms and sinks into the bloody mud of a path with no return, sown with crime and suspicion.
A Scottish warlord and his wife murder their way to a pair of crowns.
1099 A.D.: A battle-weary knight leads his men home from the Holy Land after years of fighting. But the supposedly holy relic he’s carrying bears a terrible curse…
A knight in the service of a duke goes to a coastal village where an earlier attempt to build a defensive castle has failed. He begins to rebuild the duke's authority in the face of the barbarians at the border and is making progress until he falls in love with one of the local women.
富と領土をめぐる長きに渡る戦争が続く中世暗黒時代のブリテン。山間の村に住むウェイドは襲来してきたヴァイキングたちによって生け捕りにされてしまうがヴォルヴァ(巫女)による戦神オーディンの儀式途中でウェイドを含めた５人は解放されることになったが、巫女が手にする薬草をヴァイキングたちが口にすると突如彼らは狂暴化する。それは獲物として放たれた５人と狂戦士と化したヴァイキングたちとのサバイバル・ゲームの始まりだった。
Around the year 1000 AD warlike people, the so-called "tjuder", roam in northern Scandinavia. As they brutally kill a family in a remote area, including the parents and their little daughter, the family's teenage son, Aigin, observes the slaughter. He manages to flee from these killers and reaches a camp with other Lapps whose inhabitants are worried if he has been able to hide his track. Afraid of the murderous people, they decide to flee to the coast. The boy stays alone to avenge his family's murder. Unfortunately, they get him before he can do anything and force him to lead them to the other Lapps. He guides them but has a plan to destroy the barbarous people before reaching the camp.
Towards the end of the eleventh century, Pope Urban II announces a crusade against the Saracens, who have occupied the holy city of Jerusalem. Three young friends Richard, Peter and Andrew set off to join the crusading army.
King Arthur learns one of his knights is plotting to take over and marry his daughter. After the King's death, the Knight wishing to marry the princess is ordered by the great wizard Merlin to remove the sword from the scabbard and prove his right to the throne.
An 11th-century Viking prince sails to America to find his father, who on a previous voyage had been captured by Indians.
A brother who loves books and a sister who loves swords must face a yellow-robed warrior, the Red Python, a sinuous snake-charmer, and a silk-masked beauty (who must kill or wed the first man to see her face) before they can bring peace to their battle-addled family.
A film following Harold II at the Battle of Hastings
Fictionalized account of events leading up the famous nude ride (alas, her hair covers everything) of the militant Saxon lady.
