In the summer of 1683, 300 000 Ottoman Empire's warriors begin the siege of Vienna. City's fall, will open way to conquer the Europe. The Sept 11 is the day of main battle between Polish cavalry under the King Jan III Sobieski and Turks.
Practical Effects
Actual horses charging, not CG nonsense
Costume
Winged hussars looking absolutely unhinged
Acting
F. Murray Abraham doing his best with this script
Director
Renzo Martinelli
F. Murray Abraham
Marco D'Aviano
Enrico Lo Verso
Karà Mustafà
Alicja Bachleda-Curuś
Eleonora Lotaryńska
Jerzy Skolimowski
John III Sobieski
Piotr Adamczyk
Leopold I
Cristina Serafini
Rosa Cristofori
Antonio Cupo
Charles Alexander of Lorraine
Yorgo Voyagis
Abu'l
Daniel Olbrychski
Marcin Kazimierz Katski
Borys Szyc
Mikołaj Adam Sieniawski
Andrzej Seweryn
Jan Andrzej Morsztyn
Krzysztof Kwiatkowski
Giovanni Giorgio III di Sassonia
Marius Chivu
Cosma
Gianni Musy
Carlo Cristofori
Giorgio Lupano
Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This film was a Polish-Italian co-production largely funded by Polish sources, which explains why Sobieski gets the hero treatment and the Ottoman perspective feels... thin.
The winged hussars' famous 'wings' may have been ceremonial or for intimidation—historians still argue if they wore them into actual battle. The movie says YES obviously.
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