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荷兰导演保罗·韦尔霍文首部进军美国影坛的中世纪传奇动作片，风格强烈而狂妄。男主角拉特格．豪厄主演霍文的《橘子战士》而成名，两人再度合作时已身价大涨。故事描述十六世纪时欧洲发生十字军东征，浪人马丁与一群乌合之众组成十字军四出攻城略地，爵爷曾答允在破城后让手下掠取财物二十小时，但其后食言，更下令军队围捕马丁。在爵爷之子史蒂芬与安妮举行婚礼时，马丁率众前来报仇抢走安妮。史蒂芬为了武士英名必须夺回妻子，但安妮却跟马丁日久生情，三角情欲使战火加速燃烧。美国女星珍妮弗．贾森．利在这部阳刚的暴力片中是红点，表现不俗。 导演简要： Paul Verhoeven 生於荷兰的阿姆斯特丹，拥有数学及物理双博士头衔。服役期间，替荷兰皇家海军拍摄纪录片，退伍後在电视台担任导演工作，拍了一部深入的纪录片《穆瑟》。让他受到国外瞩目的是三部由荷兰制作的电影：Soldier of O...。Dr Janina Ramirez unlocks the secrets of illuminated manuscripts that were custom-made for kings and explores the medieval world they reveal. Part 1: Ruling by the Book Janina begins her journey with the first Anglo-Saxon rulers to create a united England, encountering books in the British Library's Royal manuscripts collection which are over a thousand years old and a royal family tree which is five metres long. Janina finds out about a king who had a reputation for chasing nuns and reads a book created as a wedding gift for a ten-year-old prince. She roams from Westminster Abbey to other ancient English spiritual sites such as Winchester, St Albans and Malmesbury, and sees for herself how animal skins can be transformed into the finest vellum. Part 2: What a King Should Know Janina shows how medieval manuscripts gave power to the king and united the kingdom in an age of plague, warfare and rebellion, discovers that Edward III used the manuscripts he read as a boy to prepare him for his great victory at the battle of Crecy and reveals how a vigorous new national identity bloomed during the 100 Years War with France. In the British Library's Royal Manuscripts collection Dr Ramirez finds out that magnificent manuscripts like the Bedford Hours, taken as war booty from the French royal family, were adapted for the education of English princes. She also explores how knowledge spread through a new form of book - the encyclopaedia. Part 3: Libraries Gave Us Power The story of the British Library's Royal Manuscripts collection reaches its end with the last great flowering of illumination, in the magnificent courts of the Tudors. She investigates astrological texts created for Henry VII, and unwraps his will - still in its original, extravagantly-decorated velvet and gold cover. She hears music written for Henry VIII, which went unperformed for centuries| and reads love notes between the king and Anne Boleyn, written in the margins of a prayer book. Nina also visits Bruges, the source of many of the greatest manuscripts, where this medieval art form collided with the artistic innovations of the Renaissance. （转自mvgroup论坛）。