Cavalieri che fecero l'impresa, I (2001)

Director:

Pupi Avati

Writers:

Pupi Avati (novel)
Pupi Avati (screenplay)

Release Date:

6 April 2001 (Italy)

Genre:

Adventure | Drama | Fantasy | War

Plot:

In 1271, five young knights journey to Thebes in Greece to recover the Sacred Shroud and deliver it back to France and into the hands of the royal family. |

Plot Keywords:

Holy Shroud | 1270s | Battle | Europe | Friendship

Awards:

4 nominations

Cast

Raoul Bova	...	Giacomo di Altogiovanni
Edward Furlong	...	Simon di Clarendon
Marco Leonardi	...	Ranieri di Panico
Stanislas Merhar	...	Jean de Cent Acres
Thomas Kretschmann	...	Vanni delle Rondini
F. Murray Abraham	...	Delfinello da Coverzano
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Enzo Andronico
Franco Bagnasco	...	A border monk
Lorenzo Balducci
Marco Bocci	...	Ruolo Secondario
Giovanni Capalbo	...	Benoit
Dino Cassio
Gigliola Cinquetti	...	Madre superiora
Marcus J. Cotterell
Cesare Cremonini	...	Doorkeeper Monk
Leslie Csuth	...	Shepherd
Carlo Delle Piane	...	Giovanni da Cantalupo
Luca Forcina	...	Il monaco magro
Giacomo Gonnella	...	Capo Armigeri
Romuald Andrzej Klos	...	Blind Abbot
Loris Loddi	...	Jannot de Plume
Sarah Maestri	...	Odilia
Romano Malaspina	...	Amaury de la Roche
Edmund Purdom	...	Ugo di Clarendon
Renzo Rinaldi	...	Old man with a brown dog
Stefania Rivi	...	Girl of 'Paradise'
Elisabetta Rocchetti	...	Nun
Orazio Stracuzzi	...	Surgeon of Louis IX
Franco Trevisi	...	Rolando da Gesso
Yorgo Voyagis	...	Isacco Sathas

Also Known As:

The Knights Who Made the Enterprise (USA) (literal English title)
The Knights of the Quest

Runtime:

147 min | Japan:120 min

Country:

France | Italy

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Filming Locations:

Barletta, Bari, Apulia, Italy

Company:

Duea Film

beyond the level of incompetence

Pupi Avati is a very good director, although very little known outside Italy, who made good things with different styles. His forte is the movie about feelings and small tragedies of life, crepuscular stories set in Italian countryside, but he did an excellent job also with some peculiar horror films, with a medieval film called "Magnificat"( that, although full of historical mistakes had some grace and very personal style), films on the jazz era. What a pity he decided to cross his personal level of incompetence trying to produce a big film on the Quest for the Shroud with scarcely believable knights and an inexplicable taste for gore. The film, except some parts, doesn't work at all. It's terribly edited, with huge plot holes, with sequences that are completely meaningless and a ludicrous finale where it takes an entire army a quarter of an hour to slain the 4 heroes. As in a good old film of the past. The problem is the past is past, and this film fails to recreate that flavour. An the one that actually recreates tastes foul.