在这部十字军剧情/历史/爱情片中,十一世纪末期,罗马教皇组织了一支十字军对抗占领圣城耶路撒冷的撒拉逊人.三个年轻的好朋友理查德,彼德和安德鲁一起加入了十字军.这三人有着不同的背景,安德鲁是个牧羊人,彼德是个可怜的铸钟者,是一个信基督教的女人和一个撒拉逊男人的私生子,理查德是奥罗卡斯特的男爵威廉的儿子,男爵被与他敌对的兄弟谋杀了.十字军使用的暴力方法很快使得三个朋友之间产生分歧,在对犹太寺庙的血腥攻击之后,他们三人分道扬镳,安德鲁仍然追随十字军,而彼德和理查德则在耶路撒冷陪伴犹太女人雷切尔,她的老师,一位犹太学者,在十字军进攻中被杀害了……
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. The three friends come from very different backgrounds: Andrew is a shepherd; Peter is a poor bell founder, and the illegitimate son of a Christian woman and a Saracen man; and Richard is the deeply religious son of Baron William of Aurocastro, who was murdered by his rival brother Corrado. The violent methods used by the crusaders soon cause the three friends to fall out with each other, and after a bloody attack on a Jewish monastery, they go their separate ways: Andrew remains with the crusaders, while Peter and Richard accompany the attractive Jewess Rachel # whose teacher, a rabbi, was killed in the raid # to Jerusalem. Andrew is very reluctant to see Rachel go, having # like Peter # fallen in love with her at first sight. In Jerusalem the situation is ...
