In medieval Europe, a young girl from a noble family is obsessed with her captors - commoners.In medieval Europe, a young girl from a noble family is obsessed with her captors - commoners.In medieval Europe, a young girl from a noble family is obsessed with her captors - commoners.
- Awards
- 2 wins & 1 nomination total
Fernando Hilbeck
- Arnolfini
- (as Fernando Hillbeck)
Storyline
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- TriviaThe movie was director Paul Verhoeven's reaction to the many movies that, in his view, overly romanticized the Middle Ages. He wanted to show it as a period where brutality, disease, poverty, and hardship were common, and a natural death was a rare thing.
- GoofsAfter drinking from the contaminated well, several characters immediately fall ill from plague. Plague by any vector has an incubation period of at least one day.
- Alternate versionsUK cinema and video versions were cut by 38 secs by the BBFC with edits to the rape of Agnes. The cuts were waived for the 2005 MGM DVD.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Slotavond van de Nederlandse Filmdagen (1985)
- SoundtracksThroughout the Years
Composed by Charles Williams
Featured review
The Middle Ages in the Verhoeven way, in short. Extremely cruel film, a lot of blood, sex and violence. However, the film does not go into trash because the director made an effort to make everything look extremely realistic and convincing. He even did a good research before filming how everything was then at that age. Good cast, I was personally surprised with (then young) Jennifer Jason Leigh. I understand that this is not a film for everyone and for every mood, including me. It may have been fun for someone, but it wasn't for me.
- ivanmessimilos
- Jun 2, 2021
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- Also known as
- Flesh & Blood
- Filming locations
- Belmonte, Cuenca, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain(The Castle was also used in "El Cid")
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- $6,500,000 (estimated)
- Gross worldwide
- $278
- Runtime2 hours 6 minutes
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- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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