The Song of Roland (film)

• Klaus Kinski: Roland / Klaus
• Jean -Pierre Kalfon: Turold / Charlemagne / Marsile
• Dominique Sanda: Anna
• Serge Merlin: Pair Marsile / Ganelon / Thierry
• Alain Cuny: Turpin / the monk
• Pierre Clementi: Olivier / the writer

Roland (French: La Chanson de Roland, German Subtitles: Hordes of the iron knight ) is a French period film that combines the contents of the time of Charlemagne settled Chanson de Roland with an action from the later Middle Ages. In Germany the film was released in 1982 as a video on the market and is used primarily by its lead actor Klaus Kinski little attention.

Action

In the 13th century travels a motley group of pilgrims on their way to Santiago de Compostela with great difficulty through rural France. Your livelihood for the pilgrims in that they bring in different places on their way the legend Song of Roland to the performance. In the film, instead of the performances often ansatzlos fade in a parallel story with the same actors (and back dazzled again), in which the contents of Song of Roland is represented directly: Charlemagne is on conquest in northern Spain and, after a long struggle, a peace offering of the Muslim ruler of Zaragoza, Marsile. This offering, however, only for show, to gain a respite. After Karl received it against the advice of his belligerent knight Roland, he draws from the north, where Roland is bringing up the rear with a few knights. Marsile who hates Roland, coat bringing up the rear with a superior army and Roland falls after a heroic fight. At the same time attracts the pilgrims continue through the country and witnesses of massacres, which inflicts the landed gentry under insurgent peasants. The group takes a few surviving farmers to some extent with, then first the peasants, then himself attacked and decimated the group of pilgrims from the captors of the nobility. The film tells of the misery of the common people in the Middle Ages and the fact that the unsuccessful opposition to a hostile power is not yet in vain.