Basé sur des événements réels, le film dévoile d’anciennes hypothèses sur le dernier duel judiciaire connu en France - également nommé « Jugement de Dieu » - entre Jean de Carrouges et Jacques Le Gris, deux amis devenus au fil du temps des rivaux acharnés. Carrouges est un chevalier respecté, connu pour sa bravoure et son habileté sur le champ de bataille. Le Gris est un écuyer normand dont l'intelligence et l'éloquence font de lui l'un des nobles les plus admirés de la cour. Lorsque Marguerite, la femme de Carrouges, est violemment agressée par Le Gris - une accusation que ce dernier récuse - elle refuse de garder le silence, n’hésitant pas à dénoncer son agresseur et à s’imposer dans un acte de bravoure et de défi qui met sa vie en danger. L'épreuve de combat qui s'ensuit - un éprouvant duel à mort - place la destinée de chacun d’eux entre les mains de Dieu.
Un jeune homme d'origine coréenne et philippine rêve de devenir un boxeur accompli et de retrouver son père disparu. Il entreprend donc un voyage aux Philippines. Mais au lieu d'obtenir des réponses à ses nombreuses questions, il se retrouve pris dans les filets de combats de boxe illégaux et rencontre un meurtrier notoire connu sous le nom de "Nobleman". Il est alors confronté non seulement à la lutte pour la survie, mais aussi à la recherche de sa propre identité.
En 1600, un jeune noble anglais, Orlando, devient le favori d'Elisabeth 1er. Sur son lit de mort, elle l'implore de rester toujours jeune. Orlando traverse les époques, changeant de sexe, sans jamais vieillir.
Un chasseur de renom échoue sur une île à la suite d'un naufrage dont il est le seul survivant. Le comte Zaroff le recueille et le soigne, seulement, il se rendra bientôt compte que ce comte, raffiné et cultivé, entretient une mortelle passion pour la chasse. Las de la chasse conventionnelle, le mystérieux comte est à la recherche de nouveaux frissons...
In the 16th century, the daughter of a Spanish nobleman joins a convent and becomes a spiritual leader.
The young nobleman Calisto falls in love with Melibea, the daughter of a rich merchant. Calisto's servant Sempronio suggests they get the sorceress Celestina to further the romance. However Calisto's other servant Parmeno is suspicious of Celestina, as he knows about her tricks.
Un maître d'école anglais rencontre son sosie, un comte français; et des swaps contre son gré des identités avec lui.
L'Espagne au milieu du XVIIe siècle. Une série de guerres sanglantes a ravagé la nation. Don Juan le noble et son valet, Sganarelle, parcourent la campagne à cheval, en fuite et perdus.
It's a condition known as "hypertrichosis" or "Ambras Syndrome," but in the 1500s it would transform one man into a national sensation and iconic fairy-tale character. His name: Petrus Gonsalvus, more commonly known today as the hairy hero of Beauty and the Beast.
In this three-act operetta by Hungarian composer Emmerich Kálmán, a dashing and mysterious circus performer is hired by a disappointed suitor of Princess Fedora Palinska to pose as a nobleman and marry her. This 1969 performance was produced for West German television.
Fin du Moyen Âge au Portugal. Dom Rodrigo décide de marier une de ses filles à un riche voisin. Le vieux seigneur se rend à la cour pour convier en personne le roi aux noces. Mais en son absence, sa fille Silvia s’engage dans l’armée sous le nom de Silvestre.
What if the events in a key era in our history were actually completely different than what our history textbooks try to tell us? What if Master Jan Hus didn't even get warm in Constance, let alone burn up? What if Jan Zizka had more than one healthy eye? This animated comedy from director Pavel Koutský playfully breaks the myths about the Hussite era as the pedestal of history is occupied not by preachers and military leaders but by two unbelievable scatterbrains, who become the heroes of their time against their will.
At the forests of Östergötland, where land meets sea, rests the old castle Herrborum. Here lives count Magnus Stenbock, 92, according to his own ideas about what is appropriate and what is not. Film-maker Helena Nygren is fascinated by the count and the castle, and is allowed to film on the condition that she takes the role of companion lady. Over one year, Helena returns several times to take part of count Magnus Stenbock and his servants life on castle Herrborum in Östergötland. Time stands still on the castle, and in the movie Helena wants to preserve the fairy tale feeling she gets when she steps into these ancient surroundings. The count is a strong personality with strong opinions and a great interest in history. All kinds of people come to his castle to savor the special atmosphere and follow the old fashioned rules of etiquette. Helena transforms from an observer to a lady who participates in the social games on the estate, where everything moves around its own time axis.
Mozart's famous Singspiel after Christoph Friedrich Bretzner's work "Belmonte und Konstanze", DIE ENTFÜHRUNG AUS DEM SERAIL comes to life in the sumptuous setting of Topkapi, the Ottoman sultans' own Istanbul seraglio (palace harem). Belmonte finds his fiancée Konstanze and her English maid Blondchen, who were captured and sold by pirates, in the Mediterranean seraglio of the Ottoman pasha Selim. Belmonte's servant Pedrillo gets him engaged as builder. After Selim tried to enforce himself upon Konstanze, Pedrillo and Blondchen, his own sweetheart, prepare their flight, managing to get Osmin, the pasha's overseer, drunk. Yet Osmin and Selim's guard still capture them, already in the garden; however the touching display of true love melts the pasha's heart, so he lets them go.
LA PIETRA DEL PARAGONE (The Touchstone) concerns the Count Asdrubale who is wealthy and therefore of great interest to many women – notably Aspasia, Fulvia, and Clarice. Only Clarice, however, loves him for something other than his riches. There are also male hangers-on: the corrupt journalist Macrobio, the poetaster Pacuvio, and Giocondo, who is Asdrubale's true friend, but who has his own eyes on Clarice. To test his friends and would-be fiancées, Asdrubale pretends that he has been bankrupted. Sure enough, only Clarice and Giocondo stand by him, and when his fortune is "miraculously" saved, the three have the last laugh on everyone else... or do they? This production is set in what looks like the early 1960s. But the real innovation is the use of blue screen technology: using tiny cameras and sets, along gigantic screens hanging over the stage, a kind of video mixing makes the singers appear to inhabit any number of fanciful settings and perform a myriad of improbable actions.
The adventures of teenagers Malcolm Scott and Phillip Harrison as they improve on Einstein's Theory of Relativity, and save the world.
After the death of his beloved wife, a nobleman from northern Croatia turns to spiritualism refusing to accept that she's gone. She begins to appear in his presence and he starts to believe that she's alive.