George and the Dragon (film)

George and the Dragon ( George and the Dragon ) is an American- German - British fantasy film directed by Tom Reeve from the year 2004.

Action

The English knight George returns from the Crusades. His deepest desires are, stop fighting, home to marry and live in a small property with two cows, just big enough for his family. He is, together with the Moors Tarik, he has come to know as a friend during the Crusade, go to start. Here, discover and help Father Bernard, who flees from residents of a village.

The separate ways, and George puts together with Father Bernard to England.

He visited home, first his father, who again portrays his story of a former dragon fight. Among other things, because George doubts, his father handed him a horn, which shall be constructed of a dragon claw.

On this occasion he also met a boy ( Wryn ) know, are told from the perspective parts of the film.

George moves on. In a tavern he meets Garth know who gives him an audience with the king. Days before his daughter, the Princess Luma disappeared after she was Garth promised to wife, without a trace.

At the audience, he presented to the king his father's horn, which is recognized by the king. He recognizes in George the son of his old friend.

Then he shall on behalf of the king, together with Garth, find the missing Princess Luma. Looking George and his companions by Garth and his entourage are separated. They meet later on Wryn who supports them as an archer.

George finds the Princess Luma in a cave, where she takes care of a dragon. To the astonishment of George and his people, the Princess has a good relationship with the dragon, who has been missing for several days. She wants to save the dragon egg, because it is the last of its kind.

The group led by George and Luma is on his way back to the king. The dragon is thereby transported with a cart. On the way, the group met some nuns in a convent, and they meet again on Father Bernard.

The group led by George and Luma meets again on Garth and his entourage. Garth will be the wedding of Princess Luma himself king.

A group of looters emerges. The leader reveals himself as Tarik. This has meanwhile become the leader by defeating the original leader in a duel. Tarik will be deducted from his gang violently as leader. The group led by George and Luma fight now together with Tarik the gang that tried to kidnap Luma and demand a ransom to the king.

While George and Tarik defeat the gang, Luma rejects the marriage proposal of Garth. He then tried to force her into marriage with violence and abducted her. George and his companions follow Garth.

George had since the discovery of Dracheneis reluctantly yielded to the pressure of the princess to save the dragon egg from destruction. Shortly before the end of the film, during the battle with Garth and his entourage, he recognizes in the mother dragon, which had laid the egg, the dragon, whom his father had mentioned in his stories.

He realizes that these stories were true and also developed sympathy for the dragon. Therefore, it helps the mother dragon, giving her away a lance. This lance stuck since the battle of the Dragon with George's father in the womb of the Dragon. He also helps with the flight of the kite by suggesting all, he had the dragon and the boy killed in battle. As proof, he shows the bloody lance. Disgusted by Garth, who wanted to force them into marriage in order to become king himself and George, whom she considers to be the dragon slayer, the princess flees.

George follows her on a horse, which the king had made ​​available to him, but finally catches up with Garth. It comes to a duel on the banks of the lake, into which the dragon had withdrawn with the boy. This Garth is eaten by the sudden appearance of a dragon mother.

Luma recognizes that George had saved the dragon. The film ends in a setting with George and Luma, kissing each other.

Reviews

The lexicon of international film wrote that the film was an "ambitious crafted fantasy tale film". He varying " loving the story of the beautiful princess and the noble knight ".

Background

The film was shot in a studio in Luxembourg and Belgium.

2004 in film Screenplay Film score Jean-Pierre Castaldi Paul Freeman (actor)
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