3 Films & TV Shows Set In Spain During The 12th Century
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Destiny
🇪🇸 Spain The 12th CenturyIn the 12th century's Andalusia lives Ibn Rushd a prominent islamic philosopher with his wife Zeinab and daughter Sara. The principality is ruled by Khalifa ElMansour who has two sons, ElNasser, an intellectual that likes Ibn Rush and is in love with his daughter Sara. The younger son Abdallah is more into dancing and poetry, spending most of his times with the gypsy family and getting the daughter pregnant. The Khalifa is depending on the extremists to build his army granting them more power which they use to combat artists and philosophers. The extremists succeed in recruiting Abd Allah and train him to kill his father. Events go on where Marawan, the gypsy singer, is killed and Ibn Rushd's books are burnt. Adapted from the real life of Ibn Rushd AlMasir is Chahine's statement against extremism.
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Robin and Marian
England 🇫🇷 France 🇪🇸 Spain The 12th CenturyLove is the greatest adventure of all. — Robin Hood, aging none too gracefully, returns exhausted from the Crusades to woo and win Maid Marian one last time.
