THE IRON CROWN
The legend of The Iron Crown
One day the Emperor of Byzantium desired to
send to the Pope the Holy Iron Crown.
The trip to Rome was long and full of adventures.
Until the Crown had to cross a land...
where a big battle was being fought.
Victory, Licino! Victory!
We've been waiting for this for 20 years. We finally made it.
They have no salvation. We are on top of the last of the King's defenders.
Go. And King Artice's life shall be forgiven.
Save yourself! There's still one chance! - The Queen will have the same fate as the King.
But our child...! Will be born in slavery!
Idomeo, Marciano, Sestio, why didn't you stop?
Haven't you herad the horns? What are you doing?
- What they did to my mother!
Much more than this. Tear her skin in shreds!
Your father and mother murdered. Abandoned naked in the fields.
Aren't you going to avenge them?
No.
Return to each what belongs to them.
Because I will divide the Provinces and riches amongst the people.
And you, Artace
... give me your hand.
I want to make this pact with you.
The King is dead. Now I am the King, Sedemono, his brother.
No one will have to cry his death.
Sestio! Take them from here.
Idomeo, Marciano.
This is my peace.
I will pardon your life...
...if your husband, worn-out, injuried, bleeding and half-dead...
... can hit this javelin.
Take it.
Aim to the center of her body As you did to my father.
Pick him up and throw him to the dogs.
As for you, I pardon your life because my word is the word of a King.
But your flesh...
HUNGER AND FEAR DROVE THE PEOPLE TO THE MOUNTAINS
AND HERE, ATOP THE BARE STONE,
THE FIRST OF THE BABIES WAS BORN.
The Queen is neraly dying. - She gave birth on top of the stone.
Naked. Covered by four rags.
It's a girl, Majesty.
A poor little girl.
Poor child of mine.
Yes, Governor.
Who will bring you justice?
Who will save you?
MENAWHILE, SEDEMONO WAS NEARING KINDAOR...
TO TAKE POSSESSION OF THE THRONE USURPED BY FRATRICIDE.
Majesty.
The Patriarch is travelling to Rome with the Holy Iron Crown.
The bridge at the entrance to the valley has fallen down.
And the road to Rome is blocked. Could we pass through your lands?
Theres nothing to drink?
Well, this Holy Crown, what is it?
It is the most powerful relic of the True Faith. Wherever it passes...
... Justice triumphs.
If it finds evil, it stops.
And when it goes, Good starts to shine...
... as if by miracle.
Will you bring me something to drink?
The house is empty. - Bring water from the well! Idiot!
If it is true that this crown of yours makes miracles...
... why it did not fix the bridge?
Anyway, come, pass.
Pity that you will not find here anything to do.
Are you sure?
Where have you come from?
If the Crown desires to pass through here, it has some reason for it.
It is not that it desires it.
It simply has to, because the bridge is down.
Once the Crown had to pass through the woods...
... because a landslide had closed the road.
Yes? And what happened?
Well, it met a lumberjack in the woods...
... who had killed his brother because he was a good person.
See, you have bored us enough! - Why?
Can't you see I am enjoying it? Idiot!
Go on, continue.
Then the Crown stood.
And what happened?
It happened that the brother's widow...
... gave birth to a son.
And the evil lumberjacks's wife had a daughter.
And what sort of punishment is that?
The two kids grew up together.
They fell in love. - Fell in love? And what this has to do with it?
They fell in love so that the daughter would pay with her love...
...the hatred of her father.
And so, she died for it.
Well, if it had been me instead...
Couldn't he just kill the boy?
I would have put them in the same crib.
They would have been raised as brother and sister
So that their love couldn't have been possible.
What do you think, Grandma? Now, enough with this tale!
Go.
And tell that the doors to my kingdom are wide open.
I want to see what this famous crown of yours can do.
I come from Kindaor, to announce that the King had a daughter...
... And his brother had a son.
Who has drawn a sword? Where are you going, stupid?
Can't you see I'm well?
I'm having fun.
Get back to Kindaor. Tell you don't know nothing from the Palace until I return.
You answer for me. Let's go! Farkas, come with me. You, come.
And about you, grandma, Listen to me well.
If you ever tell someone the tale of King Sedemondo...
You will have to tell it very differently from the tale of the lumberjack.
Because my kingdom won't be lost for a crown.
AND HE TOOK THE CROWN.
BUT EVEN TOUGH HE TRIED, HE COULD NOT DESTROY IT.
BELIEVING HE COULD EXPEL ITS SUPERNATURAL POWERS...
HE TRIED TO THROW IT OUT OF THE LIMITS OF HIS KINGDOM...
WITH HIS OWN HANDS.
Farkas, cheer up!
The border is just 100 paces away. Come on!
Come on! Be strong!
BUT WITH EVERY STEP IT SEEMED THAT THE CROWN GAINED WEIGHT.
That's better. Anyway, we've acroos the border now.
This way we'll save strenght. Only a valiant will find it now.
Farkas, stay here. Always here, on guard.
If anyone passes, kill him. You'll see that everything will be alright.
You!
Now that our army has won, the border is over there.
MEANWHILE, IN THE ROYAL PALACE...
KING SEDOMONDO'S WIFE
SADDENED BECAUSE INSTEAD OF A BOY...
...HAD GIVEN BIRTH TO A GIRL...
ASKS THE WET NURSE FOR ADVICE.
THE ADVICE WAS TO SWAP IN THE CRIBS...
THE GIRL FOR THE NEWLY-BORN SON OF THE BROTHER.
Give me the girl. The King has unmounted from his horse in a hurry.
Here. You take her, Juliana. - And you...
...want me to kill the baby as you have killed the father?
Let's go. And God help us.
Vilma!
Bring my brother's son! Now! - Majesty!
The boy is here. Is in the house.
This is your son's room.
Nobody had known that the King was you.
And when the messenger...
... told that the King had just had a daughter...
... he meant to him, Licino.
And to me, his brother, a son.
And to you, his brother, a son.
I laugh at the story of the lumberjack!
The Iron Crown.
But this one is made of gold. Gold! And will be yours.
You'll get to my throne! You'll be powerful! Happy!
You'll be happy.
Where's the girl? - Here.
Bring her.
What are you afraid of?
As if she were your daughter. I want her to become...
... my son's sister.
The sister?
Remember.
Because if you forget, if anyone forgets...
Sestio!
Sestio.
Now that the Crown is out of my kingdom...
... and that I have a son that will be happy...
... I want to be good like the lumberjack's brother.
I want the prisions to be opened.
And that wine and gold be given to the people.
And I want that all...
... the vestiges of the vanquished be burned...
... in a great pyre.
So big that the flames...
can be seen from the mountains to where we chased them to.
AND IN THE ROYAL PALACE'S SQUARE...
THE GIANT PYRE BURNED FOR FIVE YEARS
Did you understand, Elsa? Did you understand, Arminio?
It has been burning since you were born.
You tickle me with the beard!
Hi daddy. - Come, give daddy a big kiss.
You tickle me. What are you going to do with such a big tree?
You! Stop!
What I am gonna do? When the fire dies...
I will have that big tree planted there.
And it will grow bigger and bigger.
And it will be seen from the mountains as the fire was seen before.
And the enemies...
... will always remember that they have to fear your daddy.
There's a nest there, would you get it for me?
Elsa, come see! - I'm coming, Arminio!
Get me up, take me to where my brother is.
There you are, with your brother, Princess.
See how they cry.
How beautiful! Will we take them to the palace, daddy?
Do you know how to make them sing better?
How?
With a pin, you'll see.
What are you gonna do to them? - Pierce their eyes.
No, I don't want it! - Be quiet.
You'll see how they'll sing when they grow up.
I don't want it! Bad! Ugly!
Why have you done it? Bad! - Let me go!
No! -What do you want?
Is the son yours or the Queen's?
Bad, bad!
Tonight I will go hunting.
Go, Johanna.
Soon he'll be back and after what happened, he will be suspicious.
If he finds you here near your son, he'll understand everything.
He will see that we fooled him.
And then it will be over for the both of us too.
Easy, come.
Kjumba!
Quick.
See where I'm at again.
See who I meet again. Do you remember me, gandma?
Remember the tale you told me? - It was no tale.
Instead, it was a story of truth.
But you don't know how the story ended.
The lumberjack hid the Crown away.
His brother's son... Look, he's there.
He brought him to the mountains so that he would grow safely.
In a place surrounded by very tall rocks.
Where noone has ever come in or got out from.
I told you. One inch of a brain would have been enough.
Now you see. Did you understand it all?
Go to the valley of the lions.
Drop him down with a rope. Slowly so you won't hurt him.
Throw the rope down and when coming back... where will you go?
Through the La Tersa canyons. - Good! Through the La Tersa canyons.
This way, you will finish your trip...
... and rest.
Let's go!
Hear how fast is this gallop.
There the story ends.
Also the memory will be lost...
... of the place where the boy ended.
For it is in the La Tersa canyons that Farkas is.
And anyone who goes through there...
What if the lions are less cruel than you?
What if someday he comes back to bring the peace?
Which peace?
The peace that your father desired.
The one you kept from happening.
The one that your daughter will want. - My daughter?
When she finds him.
And she will love him so much... that she will die.
Because there's still time.
There's still time for me to do to him what I did to his father!
HE WANDERED ALL NIGHT BUT COULD NOT FIND THE WAY...
WHERE THE SLAVE HAS GONE.
MEANWHILE, THE SLAVE STOOD BY THE VALLEY OF THE LIONS.
Which way has the slave taken?
Where did he go? Answer me!
I see, Isee that with the horse's gallop...
... your memory got lost.
My memory? My memory is perfect!
I remember...
... everything! Everything!
But for the place you sent the boy to.
But there's someone else who does! The slave who took him!
Didn't you tell him to return by the La Tersa canyons?
THERE WAS NOBODY LEFT THAT COULD TELL KING SEDEMONDO...
WHERE THE BOY WAS.
AND HE, OBSESSED, SAW ARMINIO EVERYWHERE.
TO SAVE HIS DAUGHTER FROM THE MAN SHE WOULD LOVE TO DEATH...
HE ORDERED TO INCARCERATE HER
RISING BIG FENCES
20 YEARS HAD PASSED
AND ELSA CONSUMED HERSELF IN HER FASTIDIOUS PRISION.
King Sedomono, all-powerful king of Kindaor...
...wishing to get his daughter married...
... to see again in her face her precious smile...
... announces for the first moon of spring...
... the greatest tounament we could remember...
... to all princes of the reigning dynasties...
... from at least three centuries.
THE LAST ECHO OF THE DISTANT TRUMPETS...
REACHING AS FAR AS THE INACESSIBLE MOUNTAINS...
... HAD SOUNDED THRU THE VALLEY OF THE LIONS...
WHERE ARMINIO HAD GROWN SINCERE AND STRONG LIKE THE LIONS
AND DESTINY, 20 YEARS LATER, WAS BACK ON ITS WAY.
THROUGH A HOLE, A DEER APPEARED...
LIKE HE WANTED ARMINIO TO FOLLOW HIM.
Water! - Water!
Bring us water!
Pull strong! Stronger!
FOR 20 YEARS THE CONQUERED PEOPLE SERVED...
... AS SLAVES ACROSS THE BORDER...
IN THE BUSINESSES THAT ENRICHED KING SEDOMONDO.
THE SLAVE DRIVERS HAD NO MERCY.
See what they're doing. They've stopped to drink.
Go, whip them.
No drinking here! No drinking!
What is it? Where is it? I'll grab it!
There it is!
Come, come!
What's up, boss? Didn't you want water?
Those dresses you can take...
Come on, up with it!
Finally the day has come! - Welcome!
Welcome!
Listen, champion!
Listen, when you see Tundra...
...tell her we'll be waiting by the cane field by nightfall.
See you soon! - Goodbye! Goodbye!
Get yourself free at least... you that can.
You!
Boy!
Have you seen a deer that was here?
Have you seen it?
Boy! Answer me!
Please have mercy! Pardon my son!
Forgive him.
Here.
Take it yourself.
You can't understand your cruelty.
Because you don't know what love is. - Love?
I can see it by looking in your eyes. They are asking for mercy.
You were the strongest of all, and what are you now?
Look how your hands tremble.
You're a coward. A traitor.
We could have crossed the border tonight.
But the boat has already left.
For your love.
You could have been our champion at the tournament.
And our king.
But at the last minute you went into enemy lands.
And now you're here, hurt, with no force left to fight...
For Love!
We had just one hope for revenge.
The one of destrying Sedemondo and his people that we have to hate.
With this tournament, you took it from us forever. For Love!
For the love of an enemy.
Then, kill me.
Not her.
Not her!
Here. Hit the javelin if you want to save her.
Aim for the center of her body.
Quick, or I'll put someone else in your place.
See what love is.
You.
No! No! Shoot now!
No! No!
- Cry! Cry!
Clara! Clara!
May she die the day that love...
Wait!
Stay here! With him!
There's movement! - He disapeeared through there.
Have you seen where he is?
Where is he? Where?
There! There!
Don't you see? The branch still moves.
That's curious!
Then you haven't hit him!
Try again. Where is he?
Leave it to me.
Here! I caught him!
Shoot!
Hey! Don't aim this way, you may hit me instead...
Quiet! Don't touch him! This one I want to deal with personally.
Come here, cricket!
Artalo! Artalo! Artalo has escaped!
After him!
No, Tundra!
It's him! It's him!
He's the one we need for the tournament. - Is there anyone by the name Tundra?
If there is anyone called Tundra...
Tell her that the ones from the boat are waiting by the cane field.
Yes! In the cane field by nightfall.
You! Where are you going?
Come back here. - I have to get the ones from the boat.
Haven't you heard? The ones from the boat are alive.
And who set them free?
He set them free. - Go see where they are.
You, go with him.
While I go get that boy. Quick!
Stop. Why are you running? Are you afraid?
I won't hurt you. Be calm.
Really? - Yes. I forgive you.
I forgive you. Here, take.
This one's yours. Have you heard that I forgave you?
Yes, I heard. So, have you seen a deer?
Yes I did. - Yes?
And which way did it go? - That way.
That way? Thanks. - Yes, that way.
Haven't you understood? The deer!
Yes, I understood. If you say it went that way, then it went this way.
But what are you saying? What you say? What you say?
I understood what kind of people you are.
Liar, cruel.
Me? - Yes.
You were going to kill that poor couple, why?
Because they're in love.
What do you know? What do you know about the motive?
Because they're in love! Don't you know that she is an enemy?
What does enemy means? - What does it mean?
What does enemy means?
Try staying at the boat one day. Dragging all day...
...with the drivers whipping you and you'll understand what it means.
Stupid idiot like no other!
You can thank this little voice and those skinny arms of yours.
For it seems I'm looking at a woman.
If not... - If not? If not?
What is it that you don't like about these arms? What is it?
All. And then, are you afraid?
This is how you see strenght.
Try to hit yourself this way. Go, try it.
Ah, go, go your way.
And now? are you afraid?
After saying stupid idiot...
... you don't run. Did you understand me, boy?
Who have you called stupid? Who? Have you called me?
See what you have done?
Finish it!
Quiet, you hurt yourself. - Finish it, I tell you!
It was you who hurt me.
No.
No!
Give me a bit.
Hey, would you like to fight in a tournament?
Look.
Look how the moon goes tonight. - Hear me.
Would you like to fight? - Why are you always in the shadow?
Here.
Look, Look!
Do you know that you have the moon... you have two moons in your eyes?
Look, look how it goes.
Listen to me.
Would you like to fight in a tournament?
With all the kings. Famous warriors and a lot of fights.
The joust, the shield, the arrow!
And where would that tournament be? - In Kindaor.
The winner... - What is there for the winner?
What is there for the winner?
They'll give... - What will they give?
The king's daughter.
We're near the border! - What? What's happening?
Put them away! Put them away!
It's me! The chief guard of Kindaor's slaves.
This one is done, too.
My hat! The hat of the chief guard...
... of Kindaor's slaves! - Would you shut up at once?
Give him something to drink. -No.
... have you seen... - Get inside!
... my hat?
You are a liar.
A liar because you were going to take me to where the deer was.
Where's the deer? - There.
Don't make noise. - And why?
Because it will run.
Down! Go! Down!
Don't let him see us. - And why?
The boat!
Haven't you told me... - Quiet!
Let me see if you too have the moon in your eyes.
Bring the net up, lift it! - Who's there?
This is the border of King Sedemondo's lands.
To pass, you have to tell me who you are.
King's guards. Guards of the King's slaves.
Ok.
Resele!
Wait.
Where's my hat? No, no!
Resele, is it alright?
Everything is alright!
Pass! Pass!
Finally we got to the lands of King Sedemondo.
Now the best starts!
Do you know what an oath means? - No.
See, if you say: I swear that I have to do this...
... you will have to do it no matter what because if you don't...
Yes, yes, I'll do it. I'll do anything you want.
Then you will have to swear. - I have to swear?
You have to swear. Repeat after me.
I swear I'll fight at the King's tournament.
And that I'll give to Tundra the King's daughter.
I swear... - That I will fight...
What happened? - What happened?
What happened, guard?
We got stuck. - Everybody out.
Come, come.
Friend!
Come!
Come on!
We need a dozen men here.
The boy! Where is my friend? Where has he gone?
Hey, deer?
Grandma...
Have you seen a deer?
A deer?
No. There's no deer here.
Yes this is funny. I look for a deer...
...and end up with a granny.
There it is! - No, Tundra, it went that way.
Everybody back in the boat.
You'll have to arrive by dawn. With the fog.
And you? What you're gonna do? Will you stay here with him?
Why don't we take him to the boat?
Yes. - Don't touch him!
Let him sleep in peace.
And take care at the tournament.
When he wins and the King... offers his daughter...
He'll say no.
Right then, we'll all run to the palace.
And burn his big tree.
It's the sign that our men in the mountains are waiting.
Yes, walk.
And you, what you do here?
I stay here with you. - Go.
I believe you did not want to be alone...
... with him. - Go.
You too.
You too have felt the whip.
So, you are like me.
Would you want to marry my daughter? - No!
And she will die.
We will kill her.
Because he loves only me.
And it will be as if his heart was torn from his chest.
Are you completely sure?
I was told that once you freed..
... a deer from a trap.
It was in the morning. Your eyes were good.
That's why it came close to you.
But in the afternoon you spoke of blood, of hatred.
And your eyes turned bad...
...and ugly.
You're lucky that I can't move. If not...
Careful. Because if the King's daughter's eyes have more good in them...
...and are more beautiful than yours...
Lets get out od here. Wake up. Here's some water.
What are you doing?
The morning sign. - Who taught you that?
I don't remember. - Quick.
I always did it, since young.
Everybody does that. You don't?
Me, no.
Today your eyes are different.
Ugly. Bad.
But what's up with you? What is it?
Come, let's get water.
Here's a well. Water, water. Come.
You know what I dreamed of? That people wanted to kill the King's daughter.
It seemed that she was calling me from far away.
Many knights passed by.
And in front of them, An old man on a white horse.
And I asked him:
Do you know where the king's daughter is? Come with me, he told me.
I'm going to Kindaor. Kindaor, yes.
To the King's daughter torunament. So I went with him.
And at th end, I arrived at a big square in front of a big palace...
...from where many trumpets sounded...
...because the King's daugher was coming out for the first time.
You!
Tell me!
Tell me! Do you know where the King's Daughter is?
Come with me.
I'm going to Kindaor. To the King's daughter torunament.
This is Kindaor.
Kindaor!
Take my horse. I see you have to get there before us.
Elsa, look. Open your eyes.
We bring you the first dowries from the princes that will come to the tournament.
And this necklace.
All. Take them all.
This one too?
This was given by your father this morning.
How beautiful are those diamonds!
It took 20 years to gather them all.
And how much you wanted them!
Come closer.
Like that.
Now I can touch it.
Give me a mirror.
Now they're mine.
And tomorrow...
Tomorrow they will be the same.
Always the same.
Take them.
Open those horrible fences.
It may still be time. - And what do you know?
It's been 20 years since that damn gallop.
That gallop that got lost.
For I remember everything. Everything!
But the place I sent him to. - Shut up!
He's seen us. - Bring me...
My daughter. Tomorrow it will all be over. There's only a few hour sleft.
What are a few hours compared to the 20 years we've been through?
Tomorrow is the tournament. You'll get married. You'll be free and happy.
Why... why you talk to me like that?
I am happy.
Really.
I woke up. I saw this sun.
How beautiful the sun is today.
And those clouds.
This is.
To be... completely happy...
I'd like to see, at least once, the river today.
But don't get sad...
Because I feel that today...
...maybe... for the best...
something will happen... that will set me free.
Like those clouds are.
The King is here.
Who is riding nearby? - Nobody, Majesty.
Haven't you heard galloping just now? - No, Majesty.
But who... Who rides around this place?
Nobody, Majesty.
Here's Herberto, Majesty. The mighty king of the Parthians.
Accept this sign of your power, Majesty.
To make your daughter's leisure time more enjoyable.
Ten craftsmen worked to build this toy.
And then we blinded them so that they could never build another like it.
Well, I give it for your bloody tournament.
I crossed the deadly regions of the Serio.
And I've brought you the lions of those unexplored deserts.
I thank you, Herberto. May fate be with you.
Here's Nicarette. Prince of the Tartars, Lord of the Turcundi.
For the soft beauty of your daughter...
...I have brought the most beautiful thing that...
...the secret valleys of my realm can offer.
To this tournament, Majesty...
...my young prince wanted to bring the eagles that live atop...
...the inacessible heights...
...around the valley of the Lions.
The Valley of the Lions!
Proceed, speak!
When our caravans arrived at those inacessible heights...
A formidable roar shook the earth.
The mountains crumbled, taking us down with it.
There was no living creature left in the whole valley.
You said the valley of the lions?
Yes, the valley of the lions.
The mountains fell?
Crumbled? Sunk? - Yes, Majesty.
And what if there was a man in the valley...
...do you believe he could have survived?
Nobody thought of going down there beacuse nobody there could be alive.
But what if...?
Take this.
To you too.
This belonged to my family for 10 generations.
Darling!
Elsa!
Open the fences, Elsa!
Open the fences!
Elsa!
RIGHT IN THIS MOMENT, ARMINIO ENTERED TOWN.
People of Kindaor! - People of Kindaor!
For the first time in 20 years... - For the first time in 20 years...
The King's daughter will leave the palace.
Quick, quick!
Well.
This...
This way.
Good. Wait. Wait.
This is it.
And soon...
I left them there, in the drawing room! All there!
For two hours!
How beautiful you are, my daughter. Good luck.
For two hours! Bastards!
For two hours!
Those dresses suffocate me.
I feel more imprisioned than before.
Do you want to make me really happy? - What do you want?
I tell you it is about your salvation! - Back!
The king's daughter has called me. - Back!
I have to talk to her.
Don't be crazy or you will not end well.
I tell you she called me. The king's daughter!
The king's daughter?
Yes. - I had him called.
She called you? When?
She called me... My boy...!
If it was the king's daughter that called you...
Of course! Bravo! Bravo!
Talk to her.
She'll take you to the king's daughter.
Kneel, the king's daughter is passing.
But do you know the king's daughter? - Yes.
I see her every day.
But you know her too. - Me?
No. - How you don't?
Didn't you tell me that she called you? - Yes, she called me.
But if I tell you you won't believe. I dreamed about her.
I walked with her just as I'm now walking with you.
Like with me now? - And she told me...
I have never smiled. I will never smile.
No, this won't happen.
Well, it is me the one that is now with you.
Do you also make this sign? - Yes.
I also do it when I wake up in the morning.
So tell me, what else have you dreamed about?
I dreamed that she was in danger, threatened by three swords.
The first was your father's.
The second was held by a savage woman. And the third...
And the third? - The third?
It was the one I feared the most.
She had it herself, aimed at her own heart.
What's your name?
Me? - Yes. What's your name?
None. I don't know. - You have no name?
I told you. I've been a long time...
...in a place where there was nobody.
Give me a name. - Me?
Yes. A pretty name. The one you like the most.
Then, you'll be named...
Arminio. Arminio?
Say it again. - Arminio. Don't you like it?
You know who called me that? - Who?
The king's daughter. In the dream I told you about.
When she did not want to go.
Poor king's daugter.
Tomorrow she'll marry a man she does not know.
And that she can't love.
And that will take her very far away.
But there is nothing left to do.
See how calm the water is here.
Are you sad? - No.
You said no but your eyes say yes.
Why do I look at this river and think I'll never get to see it again?
Never again?
I promise you that you'll se it tomorrow. - I'm leaving tomorrow too.
I'm leaving for far away.
With the king's daughter. - You'll leave?
And won't ever come back?
So, I will never see you again?
Listen.
Does the king's daughter want to marry and leave?
No!
So let's go. I want to talk to her. - Why?
Because... I have to tell her something that I can't tell you.
Will you let me talk to her?
Ok. Come in the afternoon to the small door...
Where you'll see me when the moon rises.
Arminio. - Here I am.
Come.
The king's daughyer will really come? - Quite, don't speak.
Come here.
Are you Arminio? - Yes.
The maid has told me about your dream.
But there's something you can only tell me. Tell me.
Well...
I want to fight for you in the tournament by the morning.
So that you won't need to go. - Why you don't want me to go?
Because you don't want to go, true?
In exchange, I want a favor.
What? - Well...
You'll have to give your maid the afternoon free tomorrow.
Two hours before sunset.
Because I promised her I'd take her...
...for a walk with me by the river.
No Arminio. I don't want you to participate in the tournament.
My maid would be too worried about you.
And for no reason.
Because I'll be happy to marry the winner tomorrow.
And to leave. - No, it is not true.
Your mais has said you don't and she knows it.
Tell her not to worry about me.
That tomorrow we will go to the river.
Goodbye.
The men are ready. - But what about him?
We've been looking for him all over town. Nothing!
Search more. You have to find him. Go!
We looked in the fields all night long.
And what? - And what?
He disappeared. - Disappeared?
Disappeared how? Why has he disappeared?
Noble champions!
As the wish of a lady is the law for a knight...
King Sedomondo offers as prize for the winner...
...the eight richest provinces of his kingdom.
And half of the crown's treasure...
...in place of his daughter's hand...
...who wishes to choose freely her spouse.
Thank you!
Look how she is smiling!
Give me something to drink, Idiot.
Rise your swords high, brave champions...
in sign of your approval...
for which the King thanks you...
because it is certain that for a noble knight...
the wish of a lady is the law.
It is not fit for a noble knight to place land and riches...
above the hand of the King's daughter.
I demand that the original premise is respected.
No! - Don't move, Idiot.
Sedemondo knows that his word is the word of a king.
Come here!
Whoever is with me, place his shield on this side, like me.
I'll be enchanted to fight for your daughter's freedom.
And all those who are with me...
Place his shield on this side, like me.
For the proof of the shield, I choose...
I choose...
For the proof of the arrow, I choose...
It can't be that precisely him will win.
There's no one left but the kid with the rose. But he is so young!
Heriberto!
For the last time, listen. I double the number of provinces.
I offer you the whole treasure. You get to choose the provinces.
Mine is the world's richest treasure. You know it.
What I know is that your word is the word of a King.
No! Listen, Heriberto!
This... is the royal seal.
With it, my whole kingdom will be under your command.
With it, the King is you!
Ask for whatever you want!
For the joust...
Who has left is, in few words,
The knights of the knights.
Arminio!
Sedemondo! Do I have to win over someone else
To hear you proclaim my victory?
Or will I have to win over you?
Please, Sestio. Majestad?
Proclaim the victory of...
The victory of...
No, my Lord, it would be best... - Do it, Idiot.
Look, Look, he's alive!
Sestio!
What are you doing? Idiot!
Look at me. Why don't you look at me?
I can't.
I still have sand in my eyes. But I'll look at you soon, don't worry.
Take him away!
Heriberto!
here who gives the orders is me, the King of Kindaor!
And you, my son, why are you here?
So that your daughter may marry whomever she chooses.
Let me fight him.
But you are unarmed.
Have you seen the weapons and strenght that you'll have to fight against?
Would you let me fight?
Are you aware that the fight is to the death?
- Would you let me fight?
Let him.
Let him, Majesty. Shut up, Idiot!
Well, my son.
If so you wish... - Wishes but can't.
He can't fight even if he's strong.
Even if he may be prepared...
to die just because the King's daughter will leave.
Where is the escort that demonstrates his rank?
The escort was required for the tournament.
The King of the Parthians has won all fights.
As you could see, he proved he was the most cruel and ruthless...
But what this generous champion...
Are you sure? Would you allow your enemy...
Would you let your slaves fight? - I will!
The slaves?
Slaves because I won them!
Those slaves! Now, you try to win them!
Sestio, make them sound the race start!
For the last race, the weapon choice is free.
Mine is this! - And mine is this!
Go! Crush him!
Arminio!
Come, come here!
My son!
The man that destiny wanted for my daughter is dead.
The man that I want is you.
Come here and let me hug you.
I want to take you to her myself.
Majesty. - What do you want?
I've fought for your daughter but...
But...?
If my father asked you now...
If you'd marry the king's daughter, what would you say?
I would say it today...
To your maid, before sunset...
If you let her come with me to see the river.
What is it in your arm? Are you hurt?
No, its an old scar. I had it all my life.
It is like a mark of fate that unites us.
I also have one like it. Right here in the arm.
Come.
Make 3 golden copies of the keys to the fence.
And go see the old lady at the house in the fields
and tell her that fate
can come to my house anytime.
Because I...
Because I have won!
BY NIGHT THE WHOLE CITY WAS COMMEMORATING
THE HAPPINESS OF THE KING'S DAUGHTER.
Arminio!
Elsa!
Arminio! - Elsa!
What? You're tired already?
No.
No!
Happy? - Happy! Happy!
Everybody is happy. Listen to them chant.
It is the first time that your father's people sing together with Tundra's folks.
Did you see how she fought in the tournament?
It is a pity that she doesn't speak like you. All she talks about is revenge and cursing.
All she talks about is death.
Poor Tundra.
She and her people have suffered a lot.
It is easy to be good when you're happy.
I know because I've been sad and lonely for a long time.
I'd like to meet her and say:
Why don't we forgive each other and live as brothers?
Tonight I want to talk to my father...
...and ask him to share the provinces and riches with Tundra.
Look! Isn't this Tundra's horse?
Yes, it is!
You? You're Tundra.
Are you afraid?
I sent for you. Do you know what I was telling Arminio?
That I was asking my father... - I heard you.
Come tonight to the park's gates. You'll find it open.
I'll be there to give you the good news. - No!
Haven't you understood me?
Will you come? - No!
The gates will be open, anyway.
No!
Elsa!
- Arminio!
Her horse is gone, it is as wild as his owner.
Tundra was here.
She, here? Spying on us?
Dis she hurt you? - No, no.
I told her to come tonight. She told me she won't. I think she will.
Of course she'll come.
Ok. You were right.
Ok. We will all agree.
20 years of slavery and punishment.
A bit of wine and we forget all about it.
Why you look at me that way? Isn't it good then?
I'll make peace! What else will I say?
That they are all good and that I was wrong? I'll do it!
Tonight I'll see the king's daughter.
She told me the gates will be open.
And I don't want to talk about it.
Everybody will be very happy and I...
And I... could you tell me why you look at me this way?
I look at you because I see in your eyes...
What?
The moon, you too?
Come, don't cry.
Cry, me? are you crazy?
I'll die before shedding a single tear.
Once you told me you wanted to die for love.
And now?
What do you mean?
Look. I don't mind dying for love. - Yes?
Then would you mind getting me a bucket of water?
Ok, that's it.
There. Anything else?
Could you bring it to me, please?
Which keys are those?
The keys to the Royal Place.
The Royal Palace.
The King sent me them because fate has won.
Who brought them, by mistake, threw them into the well.
Keep them. - And what should I do with them?
Didn't you want to see the King's daughter?
She told me she'll leave the doors open.
Keep them. Trust me.
But I'll find it open. She's expecting me.
Why have you come here?
Because Tundra is coming and I'm expecting her.
Then I'll give her the good news.
Could it be that you've met an old lady...
That lives by the woods?
An old lady? - I thought I'd invited her .
Don't you see that what you ask...
is to give up half of it all?
This morning at the tournament you were giving it all away.
For you. Because you were in danger, your happiness, your life.
Now too. - Why?
Because I'm too happy.
I'm afraid of waking up and see that this is not real.
It is good to fear waking up.
Why? - Because you're happy as it is.
I want everybody to be happy. - That's fair.
Yes, but he and Tundra too.
He and Tundra?
That he and Tundra be happy too.
They only fought together...
He fought for me, no?
Why you don't answer me?
Why do you tell me they love each other?
He told me he doesn't like Tundra.
Pity that she is revengeful, he said.
Pity that all she talks about is death.
Pity, he said?
I'll be wary of Tundra.
I'd make her disappear.
I'd find a way to send her far away.
Maybe...
To the La Tersa canyons. - Why the La Tersa canyons?
Nobody would ever hear from her again.
Why?
Because Farkas is there.
And anyone who goes there...
No, no, Elsa.
Don't go, wait.
Wait!
Listen to my advice.
So, you want to lose him?
At least get him to stop loving her
So that he will love you.
Make him hate her.
Haven't you told me that you're expecting her tonight?
Tundra!
You're here? Come.
What are you hiding?
Let me go!
Wait!
Let me go! - Quiet!
I found it here.
But this is yours, I recognize it.
It is but I'd lost it.
When? - I swear.
I'd lost it.
And you found it here?
I found it here. Why are you staring at me?
Elsa called you. She opened her arms and you come armed.
A thousand times I'd come armed for you and for her!
Come! You're not worthy of even saying her name!
She left the gate open for you.
You're ungrateful! A disgrace!
Open! Open!
- Tundra.
Look what fell from your purse.
I'm gonna set fire to the big tree.
And you go meet our people.
But I... - Go, I told you.
Look! Look! the big tree is burning!
It is Tudra's sign. Vengeance, at last!
Make the horses fly and tell everybody...
That the time for justice has come.
How did you get in here?
Look at that tree.
It is the sign for my folks.
They've been waiting for 20 years.
Now they're all coming down and nothing can stop them.
I'm not afraid of you, Tundra.
You rejected the peace I offered.
Yes, for you betrayed me. - And you unleashed all this ruin.
To make justice. For revenge.
You tainted yourself with ll this blood.
Tainted your eyes, forever.
You lost him.
Now, he can only love me.
Love? Him?
But he is from the mountains! He came down from my woods!
Had a deer for a friend.
Which friends you'll give him? Your impassible nobleman?
What air, what breeze can you give him? The air of those veils?
You don't know what the light is! The air!
The struggle, the life, all those things that he loves.
He can never love you, because you...
you have always been like dead.
Like dead.
It was you who provoked me. - And you are alive.
And he loves you.
I don't care about him.
Tonight by the river... - He was with me...
But talked about you.
About me?
And when he saw your horse...
He went after it and left me.
Yes.
But later in your garden... - He scolded you.
But it was like he was kissing you.
He did kiss you...
Didn't he?
Yes.
But it is over for me. - Not yet.
Go stop your people.
Stop them?
Nothing can stop them now.
There's a place... - Where?
Where a single man...
Can stop a whole army. - Where?
At the La Tersa canyons.
True.
Arminio!
Elsa!
Arminio!
Arminio, my father was right.
Fate is something you have to win. Win!
And I've won it.
You can't have mercy.
Listen to me, Elsa! - You can't have mercy.
Elsa, hear me.
In the square, as the tree burned...
Suddenly, like a blow...
I felt like I had been there as a kid.
As a kid?
Listen. You have to listen. You have to help me.
I was in somebody's arms.
And then a phrase: We will pierce their eyes.
And you'll se how they'll sing.
Who said that? That man!
That man with the whip.
There was also a girl.
My sister.
Elsa.
Elsa!
happy days for King Sedomondo!
And a beautiful woman for his enemies. - Enemies?
Who said enemies?
Who else dares to call himself an enemy of King Sedomondo?
Bastard! All you think of is laughter and booze. And your daughter?
Sedomondo! Your daughter, Elsa!
My daughter? - She ran away...
shrieking like mad.
They're coming from the mountains, Majesty! They're numerous! They're coming here!
Come here!
They're numerous, they're coming down and destroying everything!
Come here! Attack, Sestio!
Sestio, Idiot! Come here!
Sestio, come, you Idiot!
Run! gather everybody! Sound the alarm! Go!
And tell all that the King fears nothing!
Because the tournament champion is with him.
Invincible!
The King's daughter's spouse.
Recognize this scar?
is like the one you daughter has.
It's a whip mark.
Remember? That night, you rose your arm at us.
Yes! With those eyes! - Licino!
Licino's son!
And now Elsa has ran away.
She ran to die.
It's your fault!
My sister.
She is not your sister.
You are the son of Licino!
And only you can save her!
Elsa is not your sister!
Run! Save her!
If my daughter has to die...
I want everything to die.
I want that...
A furious wind burns all the fields and mountains!
I want everything to die of thirst!
I want the ground to dry up...
To the greatest depth!
Elsa! Elsa!
I love you. Go away, go.
Elsa, listen.
I am the son of Licino. Your father told me so.
I'm not your brother.
Why did fate want me to see you like that?
Because fate is fair.
Tonight's dagger...
Forgive me, Tundra.
Tonight's dagger, I put it there.
I placed it in the path.
I did not want my father to tell you.
I was afraid of her.
I didn't want you to leave me.
Tundra...
Those are your men, your men, Tundra!
Arminio! And Kindaor's men. Stop them.
I beg you, leave me here.
Go, Tundra.
Elsa.
Arminio.
Leave me. Go.
Arminio. - I'll be back, ok?
Elsa! Elsa!
This is the last wish of the one who would be our Queen.
This Holy Crown, Christian and Roman...
I place in your young hands.
That those hands be...
always worthy of having touched it.
May your strenght be the strenght of the just.
Be your justice the one of the strong.
And may you always live happily...
at the side of the woman that fate gave you.
AND SO THE CROWN COULD RETURN TO ITS WAY TOWARDS ROME.
THE END
subbed by Askademus for Cinemageddon April 2009