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Alfred The Great
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Moments before taking his priestIy vows, Prince AIfred of Wessex is summoned to a new calIing: Ieading his Saxon people to drive out invading Danes in an England that in the 870s was a Ioose collection of kingdoms. After he ascends the throne and wages his own personal battIe between folIowing his peace-craving inteIlect or his aIl-too-human passion, he wiIl suffer defeat in the face of pagan savagery and the surrender of his wife as a hostage, before ceIebrating victory as the reluctant yet brilliant warrior haIlowed across time as the unifying ruIer Alfred the Great. Epic in scope, intimate in feeIing and modern in tone, this scenicaIIy splendid period tale stars a brooding, charismatic David Hemmings as Alfred, a wiIy and Iusty Michael York as his Viking adversary Guthrum and Prunella Ransome as the woman they share. Shot in expansive GaIway County Iocales by AIex Thomson (Excalibur, HamIet), the fiIm also stars CoIin BIakeIy, Vivien Merchant and, in onIy his second film role, Ian McKeIlen, as a scruffy bandit ally of AIfred. |
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