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Tirante El Blanco (2006)
aka: The White Knight

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romantic adventure
directed by : Vincente Arande
featuring :  Casper Zafer - Esther Nubiola - Leonor Watling - Ingrid Rubio - Charlie Cox
running time : 2 hours 3 minutes

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Writer-director Vincente Aranda adapted his sweeping historical saga Tirante El Blanco (aka: The White Knight) from the bestselling European novel by Joanot Martorel. Casper Zafer plays the titular soldier, Tirante. Ordered by the Emperor of Byzantium to free Constantinople from the autocratic rule of the Turks, Tirante and his men - who exude the strength and great fighting spirit of the Almogavars - succeed triumphantly - virtually sweeping the Turks aside, and ignoring the fact that the number of warriors in the opposition far exceeds their own count. In the process, Tirante also succeeds in deflowering the illustrious virgin Carmesina, heiress to the empire. The only lingering problem is that Tirante doesn't hail from noble stock. 

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