"Crusaders." "if you will." "Squire." "Wait." "She was a suicide." "Cut off her head." "And return the axe." "my lord?" "Know it?" "I know all of it." "Thomas." "I told you to stop that now." "Out of the way of the horses." "That is the man." "That is the man." "We need all these horses shod." "We need food." "And we'll pay." "He says yes." "The blacksmith is the man you seek." "His name is Balian." "But know that he mourns." "The burial we passed at the crossroads was for his wife." "Their child died." "She was overcome with grief and killed herself." "Do you still advise what you advised upon the road?" "my lord." "What does that say?" ""What man is a man who does not make the world better?"" "Leave me with this man." "I am sorry you lost your wife and child." "have lost." "Some say Jerusalem is the very centre of the world for asking forgiveness." "I call it here." "Now." "I knew your mother." "I should say that it was against her objections." "But I did not force her." "I loved her in my fashion." "I'm your father." "I have forgiveness to ask of you." "the baron of Ibelin." "I have 100 men at arms in Jerusalem." "you will have a living and will have my thanks there it is." "my place is here." "What made it your place is now dead." "You will never see me again." "take it now." "I want nothing." "I am sorry for your troubles." "God protect you." "Jerusalem is easy to find." "You come to where the men speak Italian." "And continue until they speak something else." "We go by Messina." "Goodbye." "They would have taken you to Jerusalem." "Away from all this." "God has abandoned you." "you will have no peace so long as you stay here." "No man ever needed a new world more." "The village does not want you." "If you take the Crusade you may relieve your wife's position in hell." "I put it delicately." "She was a suicide." "She is in hell." "Though what she does there without a head" "Wait here." "Have you come to kill me?" "it is not easy." "Well?" "I have done murder." "Haven't we all?" "is it true that in Jerusalem I can erase my sins?" "And those of my wife?" "is it true?" "We can find out together." "Show me your hand." "my lord." "I once fought two days with an arrow through my testicle." "Never use a low guard." "You fight well." "like this." "The Italians call it la posta del falcone the guard of the hawk." "Strike from high." "Like this." "Do it." "Sword straighter." "Come on." "Leg back." "Bend your knees." "Sword straighter." "Defend yourself." "The blade isn't the only part of a sword." "Attack." "I have your leave?" "Pay attention." "What's this?" "You have with you a man Balian who killed a priest." "I'm charged by the lord bishop to bring him back." "What he says is true." "They have the right to take me." "then we'll fight." "God will decide the truth of it." "My German friend is a close student of the law." "Just give him to me." "I'll fight you for something else." "He's a murderer." "So am I." "you will certainly be among them." "You're a lord." "I must give you the road." "To the flanks." "Thank the bishop for his love." "You broke the arrow. in which case you'll take a fever and die. and you'll live." "You're in the hands of God." "Will you get me some more wine?" "It was not that they had no right to take you." "It was the way they asked." "They had the right to take me." "And so do I." "To kill an infidel is not murder." "It is the path to heaven." "To kill an infidel is not murder." "It is the path to heaven." "To kill an infidel is not murder." "It is the path to heaven." "Who is this?" "My son." "Would I had fought you when you were still capable of making bastards?" "I knew your mother when she was making hers." "you're too old to be one of mine." "All will be settled." "Do you know what lies in the Holy Land?" "A new world. the master of a city." "He who was the master of a city begs in the gutter. but what you have within yourself to be." "I hope to find forgiveness." "That's all I know." "you are of my house." "And that means you will serve the king of Jerusalem." "What could a king ask of a man like me?" "A better world than has ever been seen." "A kingdom of conscience." "A kingdom of heaven." "There is peace between Christian and Muslim." "we try." "Did you think that lay at the end of a crusade?" "It does." "you are all that survives me." "Do not disappoint me." "Who are those men?" "Muslims." "Saracens." "And they are allowed their prayers?" "If they pay the tax." ""Praise be to God." "It is proper to praise him."" "Sounds like our prayers." "It's good. like your father." "I am Guy de Lusignan." "Remember that name." "And me." "Keep it." "My lord." "How will you ride if you have no stick to beat the horse?" "He will be king in Jerusalem one day." "Balian." "Hurry." "I can go no further." "Get on your knees." "Be without fear in the face of your enemies." "Be brave and upright that God may love thee." "even if it leads to your death." "Safeguard the helpless and do no wrong." "That is your oath." "And that's so you remember it." "Arise a knight and Baron of Ibelin." "Defend the king." "protect the people." "not your son." "Are you sorry for all your sins?" "For all but one." "as your father wished." "I'll follow within the week." "This journey can be perilous." "He'll keep you safe in His hands." "If not" "God bless you." "He says that is his horse." "Why would it be his horse?" "Because it is on his land." "I took this horse from the sea." "He says you are a great liar." "And he will fight you because you are a liar." "I have no desire to fight." "Then you must give him the horse." "No." "Fight me fairly!" "Why?" "Why should he?" "He is a knight." "And I am the baron of Ibelin." "He says the baron of Ibelin is old." "He knew him at Damascus." "I am the new one." "Stop." "That's enough." "Stop!" "Stop!" "that's enough!" "lbelin!" "Stop!" "You have taken it very well that I have killed your master." "It was the end of his time." "All is as God wills it." "Now finish this." "Take me to Jerusalem." "Very good horse." "Take the horse and be about your business." "This is your prize of battle." "your slave should you wish it." "I have been a slave or very near to one." "I will never keep one nor suffer any to be kept." "Go." "The man you killed was a very great cavalier among the Muslims." "His name was Mummad al Fais." "I will pray for him." "Your quality will be known among your enemies my friend." "where is it that Christ was crucified? what is it you want of me?" "How can you be in hell when you're in my heart?" "You must have known him." "What?" "you must have known him." "I did." "A man my size." "Yes." "And green eyes." "Blue." "Come with us." "My lord." "Stop." "You're hurting him." "Where's your master?" "I have none." "Give me some water." "Thank you for the drink. tell him that Sibylla called." "So how find you Jerusalem?" "God does not speak to me." "Not even on the hill where Christ died." "I am outside God's grace." "it seems I have lost my religion." "I put no stock in religion." "I've seen the lunacy of fanatics of every denomination be called the "will of God"." "Holiness is in right action and courage on behalf of those who cannot defend themselves." "And goodness" "what God desires is here and here." "you will be a good man or not." "Come." "The king has made a peace with Saladin these past six years. as the Muslims did before we came." "These men are Templars." "They killed Arabs." "So they are dying for what the Pope would command them to do." "I think." "Nor this king. and me." "is a Saracen." "He lies. when you are not protected by your title." "Oh?" "When will that be?" "when men are equal and the kingdom of Heaven has arrived." "Those Templars have been hung for a raid that I know you commanded." "Prove it. I will wait at Kerak until you do." "Reynald." "Tiberias." "I'll be there." "Tiberias." "My lord." "It's true." "You're your father's son." "He was my friend." "I'm yours." "Godfrey dead." "It could have come at a better time." "Come." "It was shouted in the streets that you killed a great lord of Syria. that you had cause." "What know you of Saladin?" "That he is king of the Saracens." "And that he surrounds this kingdom." "000 men in Damascus alone." "He could win a war if he goes to war." "And he's daily given cause for war by fanatics newly from Europe." "By Templar bastards like Reynald de Chatillon." "as far as it can be kept." "But Saladin and the king between them would make a better world." "it still has lived." "What did your father tell you of your obligations?" "That I was to be a good knight." "I pray the world and Jerusalem can accommodate such a rarity" "as a perfect knight." "Have you dined?" "Guy de Lusignan." "how many knights did you find in France?" "50." "They've sworn allegiance to the king?" "Tiberias." "Obviously." "You sit at my table?" "is it not the king's table?" "is it?" "I have not seen a king at it for some years." "I cannot eat." "I am finicky about company." "this could not inherit." "there are no civilized rules." "I have business in the East." "My wife does not lament my absence. very worst." "my lord." "He is in disfavour." "I am a member of this court." "Why should I make leave with that troublemaker?" "To the very best of wives." "The king will see you now." "The king would see Godfrey's son." "I'll take him." "I spoke without knowing who you were." "I knew who you were." "It's unmistakable." "I loved your father." "And I shall love you." "Do you fear being with me?" "No." "And yes." "A woman in my place has two faces." "and one which she wears in private." "I'll be only Sibylla." "Tiberias thinks me unpredictable." "I am unpredictable." "No." "There." "Come forward." "I am glad to meet Godfrey's son." "He was one of my greatest teachers." "my arm was cut." "who noticed that I felt no pain." "He wept when he gave my father the news that I am a leper." "The Saracens say that this disease is God's vengeance against the vanity of our kingdom." "these Arabs believe that the chastisement that awaits me in hell is far more severe and lasting." "I call it unfair." "Come." "Sit." "I won a great victory." "I felt in that moment I would live to be 100." "Now I know I shall not see 30." "really." "A king may move a man." "A father may claim a son. your soul is in your keeping alone. or that virtue "was not convenient at the time"." "This will not suffice." "Remember that." "I will." "Then go now to your father's house at lbelin." "protect the pilgrim road." "Protect the helpless." "you will come and protect me." "my lord." "lbelin." "Your father was important." "His lands were not." "That will suit me." "100 families." "Muslims." "You have 50 pairs of oxen." "What we do not have is water." "Right." "Stone the walls." "I'm on my way to Cana." "Where Jesus changed water to wine." "A better trick would be to change you to a nobleman." "a few yards of silk can make a nobleman." "I expect your hospitality." "It is given." "What?" "It seems years since I've seen a woman eat." "Truly?" "I was watching you today." "You've been given a patch of dirt and it seems you will build a new Jerusalem here." "It is my land." "Who would I be if I did not try to make it better?" "They try to be one." "one morality." ""Submit." "Decide."" "Did you decide on Guy?" "Guy was chosen by my mother." "I was 15 at the time." "Why do you think I'm here?" "I know that lbelin is not on the way to Cana." "my lord?" "I know that you are a princess." "And I am no lord." "You're a knight." "Neither earned nor proved." "I'm not here with you because I'm bored or wicked." "I'm here because there is only light." "Halt!" "Reynald." "Good." "No sport otherwise." "They've seen us." "nothing." "I'd prefer not to be hanged before my wife is queen." "they'll say." "I assure you." "Reynald." "I would have it now." "How long can the leper last?" "God wills it." "God wills it!" "God wills it!" "Jerusalem!" "It's you! have attacked a Saracen caravan." "Silence!" "It was no caravan." "It was an army headed for Bethlehem to desecrate our lord's birthplace." "have broken the king's pledge of peace." "Saladin will come into this kingdom" "Tiberias knows more than a Christian should about Saladin's intentions." "That I would rather live with men than kill them is certainly why you are alive." "I suppose." "We must not go to war with Saladin." "We do not want it and we may not win it." "Blasphemy!" "An army of Jesus Christ which bears his holy cross cannot be beaten." "Does the Count of Tiberias suggest that it could be?" "There must be war." "God wills it." "God wills it!" "Silence!" "000 men." "He will make first for Kerak and Reynald de Chatillon." "My lord." "We must meet him before he reaches Kerak." "I will lead the army." "you'll die." "Send word to Balian to protect the villagers." "Assemble the army." "What becomes of us?" "The world will decide." "The world always decides." "the king is marching on Kerak." "Saracen cavalry." "They're coming to close Reynald in." "These people are not safe outside the walls." "Saladin will certainly come behind them." "Go into the fortress now." "Visitors." "My lord Balian." "My lord Balian." "My lord Reynald prays you bring your force into Kerak." "these people will die." "We'll hold the Saracen cavalry until the king arrives." "So be it." "We cannot attack that and live." "My lady." "What do you look at?" "A knight." "His men." "Are you with me?" "Forward!" "Divide!" "Your quality will be known among your enemies my friend." "You were not that man's servant." "No." "He was my servant." "What becomes of us?" "As you deserve." "You reap what you sow." "no?" "Get up." "but you will die there." "My master is here." "Tell my lord Saladin that Jerusalem has come." "Saladin." "I pray you pull back your cavalry and leave this matter to me" "I pray you retire unharmed to Damascus" "Reynald of Chatillon will be punished" "I swear it" "Withdraw or we will all die here." "Do we have terms?" "We have terms." "I will send you my physicians." "Assalam-O-Alaikum!" "Walaikumassalam!" "I am Reynald of Chatillon!" "On your knees." "Lower." "I am Jerusalem. will give me the kiss of peace." "Guard." "What are you looking at?" "A dead man." "you are arrested and condemned. that is." "but I do." "I need you in Jerusalem." "Assalam-O-Alaikum!" "Walaikumassalam!" "Why did you retire?" "Why?" "God did not favour him." "God alone determines the results of battles." "The results of battles are determined by God. the absence of disease and the availability of water." "One cannot maintain a siege with the enemy behind." "How many battles did God win for the Muslims before I came?" "before God determined that I should come." "Few enough." "That's because we were sinful." "It is because you were unprepared." "you shall not be king for long." "I quake for Islam." "Thank you for your visit." "Thank you for your visit." "You promised." "You promised to return Jerusalem." "Don't forget." "the time has come to conclude my affairs." "We have decided that you shall take command of the army of Jerusalem." "he will take power through my sister and make war on the Muslims." "I will serve." "No." "Hear it all before you answer." "were she free of Guy de Lusignan?" "And Guy?" "He will be executed." "Along with his knights who do not swear your allegiance." "I cannot be the cause of that." ""Whatever you ask I will serve."" "you said." "But the soul belongs to the man." "I did." "You have my love and my answer." "So be it." "Why do you protect Guy?" "hates you." "He'd kill you himself if he had the chance." "would it be so hard to marry Sibylla?" "Jerusalem has no need of a perfect knight." "No. lt is a kingdom of conscience." "Or nothing." "Sibylla." "Who are you to refuse a king?" "I am what I am." "I offer you that." "And the world." "You say no." "Do you think I'm like Guy?" "That I would sell my soul?" "There'll be a day when you will wish you had done a little evil to do a greater good." "My lord." "Do you really think the king wants you as head of the army once he's gone?" "Think your wife does?" "I have a problem." "Yes." "Balian." "I saw him at Kerak." "Celebrated." "Kill him." "Hello." "I was dreaming." "I was back in that summer when I defeated Saladin." "Do you remember it?" "I was only 16." "You were a beautiful boy." "Yes." "You've always been beautiful in every way." "My beautiful sister." "So beautiful." "I'm sorry if I've caused you any pain." "Remember me as I was." "I will." "Sibylla. you have your wife." "Behold your rightful queen and heir to the throne of the kingdom of Jerusalem." "Hail!" "Hail!" "Hail! the man who has been my husband." "he will rule his people well." "Long live the king in prosperity." "Long live the king." "Long live the king." "Long live the king." "is this why you came to the Holy Land?" "Come on!" "Leave us." "The king is in heaven?" "Yes." "Have the Templars killed Balian?" "Yes. give me a war." "That is what I do." "I am what I am." "Someone has to be." "Saladin's sister." "I know." "I know." "Assalam-O-Alaikum!" "Walaikumassalam!" "Speak. the heads of those responsible and the surrender of Jerusalem." "Does he?" "What answer do you return to Saladin?" "This." "Take the head to Damascus." "I am Jerusalem." "Assemble the army!" "Now this assembly of barons and all Jerusalem is complete. but it is war." "And I am the king." "We march at once." "What say this council?" "Aye! this army cannot move away from water." "You have a chance to hold the city. this army will be destroyed and the city left defenceless." "I will tell him." "Saladin wants you to come out." "He is waiting for you to make that mistake." "He knows his men." "We should meet the enemies of God." "Aye!" "And so we shall." "Then you do so without my knights." "Tiberias." "You had yours years and years ago." "It's time for mine." "Tiberias." "he will come." "We must look to the defences." "The king's dead." "And Jerusalem along with him." "You go with the army?" "My order is with the army." "You go to certain death." "All death is certain. I shall tell your father what I've seen you become. we're not defensible." "Save the people from what I have done." "I will." "God wills it." "Can you sense it?" "There has been no messenger." "I drink water for what it is." "I did not give the cup to you." "my lord." "A king does not kill a king." "Were you not close enough to a great king to learn by his example?" "I have given Jerusalem my whole life." "Everything." "I thought we were fighting for God." "Then I realised we were fighting for wealth and land." "I was ashamed." "Tiberias." "There is no more Jerusalem." "I shall go to Cyprus." "Will you come with me?" "No." "You are your father's son." "Saladin must move his army from water to water." "maybe five." "God be with you." "He is no longer with me." "Mark 400." "400." "400!" "They're here." "It is only one man." "No." "They're here." "This is the only section of the wall they can attack once they begin to bombard the walls." "They will stop only to avoid hitting their own siege towers as they come in." "we fire." "We must leave the city." "my lord bishop?" "The fastest horses from a lesser gate. but it is God's will." "Silence!" "It has fallen to us to defend Jerusalem and we have made our preparations as well as they can be made." "None of us took this city from Muslims." "No Muslim of the great army now coming against us was born when this city was lost." "We fight over an offence we did not give." "Against those who were not alive to be offended." "What is Jerusalem?" "Your holy places lie over the Jewish temple that the Romans pulled down." "The Muslim places of worship lie over yours." "Which is more holy?" "The wall?" "The mosque?" "The sepulchre?" "Who has claim?" "No one has claim." "All have claim." "That is blasphemy!" "Be quiet. but the people living within these walls." "My lord." "My lord." "My lord." "How are we to defend Jerusalem without knights?" "We have no knights." "Truly." "What is your condition?" "I'm servant to the patriarch." "He's one of my servants." "is he?" "You were born a servant." "Kneel." "Every man at arms kneel!" "On your knees!" "Be without fear in the face of your enemies." "Be brave and upright that God may love thee." "even if it leads to your death." "Safeguard the helpless." "That is your oath." "And that is so you remember it." "Rise a knight." "Rise a knight." "Who do you think you are?" "Will you alter the world?" "Does making a man a knight make him a better fighter?" "Yes." "My lord?" "No." "When will it begin?" "Soon." "Ballista!" "Get them to the walls." "Water." "Bring water." "Get the machines to the walls." "Push!" "Push!" "Why do they not fire back?" "They wait." "That was only the first day." "There may be 100 more." "Saladin will show no mercy." "We must hold out." "Force him to offer terms." "What terms?" "We fight for the people." "Their safety and freedom." "Mercy." "No. I cannot." "400." "400." "Fire!" "Fire!" "300." "300." "Fire!" "Fire!" "150." "150." "Fire!" "Hold your fire!" "Hold!" "Fire!" "Fire!" "Oil!" "Now!" "Fire!" "Who defends?" "Balian of Ibelin." "The son of Godfrey." "Godfrey?" "Godfrey nearly killed me in the Lebanon." "I did not know he had a son." "It was his son at Kerak." "The one you let live?" "Yes." "Perhaps you should not have." "Perhaps I should have had a different teacher." "Fire!" "Fire!" "Fire!" "Fire! it cannot be resurrected until Judgment Day." "we will all be dead of disease in three days." "my lord. and we need not worry." "Assalam-O-Alaikum!" "Walaikumassalam!" "has been weakened." "it is weaker than the wall round it." "Or stronger." "It is weaker." "Rashid has seen it." "This will be our door into Jerusalem." "This is where we will make our stand." "We must prepare." "Brothers!" "Brothers!" "God has sent you this day." "You will take no prisoners." "so shall it be done." "Allah-O-Akbar!" "(God Is Great) there will be no quarter. your families will die." "We can break this army here." "So I say let them come." "Let them come!" "Come on!" "Come on!" "Come on!" "They will ask for terms." "They must ask for terms." "Convert to Islam." "Repent later." "Your Eminence." "Will you yield the city?" "I will burn it to the ground." "Your holy places ours." "Every last thing in Jerusalem that drives men mad." "I wonder if it would not be better if you did." "You will destroy it?" "Every stone." "And every Christian knight you kill will take ten Saracens with him." "You'll destroy your army here and never raise another." "I swear to God that to take this city will be the end of you." "Your city is full of women and children." "so will your city." "Do you offer terms?" "I ask none." "I will give every soul safe conduct to Christian lands." "Every soul." "the old." "And all your knights and soldiers and your queen." "No one will be harmed. I swear to God." "The Christians butchered every Muslim within the walls when they took this city." "I am not those men." "I am Saladin." "Saladin." "I surrender Jerusalem." "Assalam-O-Alaikum!" "And peace be with you." "What is Jerusalem worth?" "Nothing." "Everything." "I have surrendered Jerusalem." "All will be safely escorted to the sea. let God do with it as He wills." "Your brother's kingdom was here." "And here." "That kingdom can never be surrendered." "What should I do?" "Tripoli." "Decide not to be a queen." "And I will come to you." "This horse" "It is not a very good horse." "I will not keep it." "Thank you. how could you have done all the things that you have done?" "Peace be upon you." "Walaikumassalam!" "A queen never walks." "And yet you are walking." "Forward." "Halt!" "We crusade to recover the kingdom of Jerusalem." "You go to where the men speak Italian." "And then continue until they speak something else. who was defender of Jerusalem." "I am the blacksmith." "And I am the king of England." "I am the blacksmith." "Forward!" "Subtitles ßy MühàmmáÐ Ü§mâñ"