THE KINGDOM OF HUNGARY - WALLACHIA SERBIA - THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE
We need to close the wound.
Hold on, brother.
I'm glad you're here, brother.
Where else would I be?
I was there at your christening.
Why would I leave you in the lurch now?
Where's the King?
A FEW MONTHS EARLIER
Come quick!
- What's wrong? - Cesarini.
Do you convert to the faith of Rome?
Last chance... Do you accept the Holy Spirit from the Son of God?
Do you accept the supremacy of the Pope?
Enough!
You don't command me, Johannes.
I'm carrying out the Pope's will.
Or do you also doubt his supremacy?
I don't take orders from the Pope.
Only from my king. The Hungarians' King.
Johannes!
Your Majesty...
This is madness... We can't turn the Bulgarians against us.
We need to cross their lands.
- They must be converted! - This isn't the Inquisition.
It's a military campaign!
Have you finished?
You're right, it is a campaign.
But you are not its leader.
I know that, Your Majesty.
And for good reason.
Cesarini is right.
This isn't just about defeating the Ottomans.
We're defending and spreading the one true faith.
What are you defending by torturing innocent Orthodox priests, Your Majesty?
Christians!
Johannes!
I'm not done with you yet!
- You want Hungary, do you? - Yes!
You damned Ottoman beast!
Crawl back into your rat hole!
And don't show your face here again, you pagan dog!
The next time, I, Lord Ujlaki, will sort you out myself!
You think this'll work?
To you, it's just a show. I mean, you were there fighting with him.
But to them it's real.
They'll take what they hear today back home,
and into the pubs.
By tomorrow, it'll be all over town.
They worship Hunyadi.
The show's not over yet.
I'm Hunyadi,
while the brave Ujlaki is crushing the Ottomans,
I'll steal all the Sultan's gold.
Oh, how nice!
Just like I stole Ujlaki's bride.
Erzsebet Szilagyi.
Now I'm the one who rides the pretty filly!
- I've seen enough... - Wait!
You'll miss the best part...
Halt! Who goes there?
I'm Hunyadi... Oh, Ujlaki's caught me in the act!
- What do you think you're doing? - Running away!
- Where were you during the battle? - Hiding!
And now that it's time for looting, you're back?
Looting's what I do best!
I know we haven't always seen eye to eye,
but with Hunyadi gone on another suicide mission,
the nation needs a strong leader.
If Hunyadi beats Murad, by the time he gets home,
he'll be too tired to put up a fight.
And if he's defeated...
Well, you won't even have to share your title with him.
Who'll stop Murad then?
You and me?
Stopping Murad never even occurred to me.
Tell me Miklos,
would it really be so bad if that mob
spent their evenings at the steam baths rather than the pub?
If they sobered up for once and learned to count?
Sure, their churches will wear a crescent moon instead of a cross, but...
Keep your voice down.
You sound like a traitor.
Lord Ujlaki loves you!
Lord Ujlaki! Let's hear it!
Lord Ujlaki is honest...
You think I will always be your puppet?
If you know what strings to pull, everyone is a puppet.
EDIRNE THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE
The infidel army is on the move.
We have no time to waste.
We will win a glorious victory over them, Father.
Halil won't be coming with us this time.
He must stay here to find out who did this.
You will lead the army.
I'm ready, Glorious Sultan.
BUDA CASTLE THE KINGDOM OF HUNGARY
If I'd known what you were like in bed, I'd have married Miho Szilagyi instead.
What's your problem now?
I want you to fulfill your potential.
Why do you just follow at someone else's heels
like a dog chasing its master?
Aren't you richer than all the others?
Yes...
Stronger?
Yes...
- Aren't you the biggest of them all? - Oh, yes!
Then why did your ex-fiancée choose Hunyadi?
Don't you start on that, too.
It's got the whole city laughing.
Cillei and his stupid puppet show...
Everyone always chooses Hunyadi.
Sigismund did, Albert did, now Vladislaus...
And you just sit here with Cillei as your best friend?
And you.
Life isn't perfect.
Thank Goodness, a familiar face!
Giulietta!
What brings you here from so far away?
Did Visconti send you?
No. And he mustn't know I'm here.
He'd have me killed.
- What are you doing here then? - Who is this woman?
My name is Giulietta di Brienza. I know Signor Hunyadi from Milan.
I have important news.
She's brought news.
- News? - Giovanni is in danger.
She says that Hunyadi's in danger.
Did she say "Giovanni"?
That's what everyone calls Janos in Italy.
What kind of danger?
Duke Visconti says the Venetians haven't forgotten
how Il Corvo tricked them and defeated their army at Soncino.
The ships they promised, the ones the Pope ordered for the crusade...
they were never built.
The Venetians never built the ships.
There'll be nothing to stop Murad.
We must send a courier at once.
Ask her if she has a place to spend the night.
Erzsebet asks if you have a place to spend the night.
Thank you, but I must return immediately.
Thank God.
Why didn't she just send a message?
Erzsebet doesn't understand why you didn't send a courier.
I wanted to speak to you in person.
I owe him that much.
Giovanni.
She feels that... she owes it to Hunyadi.
And I also owe you...
an apology.
And... she owes you, as well.
Me?
Owes me what?
Well...
I must write to Janos.
With luck, he'll get my letter in time.
Erzsebet is grateful you travelled so far.
She won't keep you any longer.
Tell the guards not to let in every woman who's ever wandered into Hunyadi's bed.
Hang on...
Lord Hunyadi!
Hey!
What's going on?
I'll have your head for this. Raising a hand to the Pope's envoy.
- What a disgrace! - Miho! What's this all about?
The Bulgarians are burning every village in our path!
If this idiot hadn't tortured their priests,
we'd have had hot dinner and Bulgarian pussy tonight!
Silence!
We'll face this everywhere.
They'll destroy everything to stop us.
Janos! We've got to pitch camp.
The wagons can't get through the mud.
We can't go on.
And we can't turn back.
We're pitching camp!
I command this army.
Your Majesty!
The soldiers are exhausted. More and more men have a fever.
The flour's moldy,
the gunpowder's damp, some of it's totally ruined.
What's wrong with you, Johannes? Scared of the fight? Pitiful!
It won't be a fight that awaits us. It'll be a massacre.
- We're pitching camp! - You are not in charge here!
No, Your Eminence, I'm not.
But if my men are slaughtered because of you, and you survive,
I'll hunt you down like a dog.
Your Majesty! You can't let Cesarini lead the troops to their deaths!
Enough! You quarrel like children.
Johannes, can't you see you're destroying the army's morale?
All that drives you is envy.
My men are staying here.
Do as you please with the others.
You could go to Hell for saying that.
We're already there, Your Majesty.
We're pitching camp.
We call this the Anatolian Fortress.
The Genoese built it for us.
I thought they were our enemies.
You thought right.
But it's essential for them to reach the Black Sea in safety.
And while their ships block the strait, we can't cross it.
And if we can't cross it, nothing will stop the infidels.
This is why you brought me here?
No.
I want to teach you about our enemies.
They are attacking us in the name of "one true God".
But let me show you what their God really looks like.
His true face...
Glorious Sultan!
Have mercy on me...
I'm begging you...
I don't wish to harm you, Captain.
You understand what I am saying, don't you?
You're Italian...
Genoese, correct?
But you live in Constantinople,
and speak Turkish
so you can ship your goods across the Bosphorus strait.
Well... I'd like to offer you some business.
For every Ottoman soldier you carry over the strait,
I'll pay you one gold coin.
You're asking me to betray my faith?
To betray Christianity for a handful of gold?
I'm only asking you to count.
Each one of these figures represents a thousand men.
A thousand men...
...a thousand gold coins.
That's twenty... maybe twenty-five thousand soldiers.
Forty thousand...
to be precise.
Halt!
Who goes there?
I have a message for Lord Hunyadi.
You sent for me, Your Majesty.
A message has arrived from Hunyad Castle.
Your Eminence, is there anything you would like to tell me?
What do you mean, Your Majesty?
You promised the Pope's ships would prevent
the Sultan from crossing the Bosporus strait.
You said all we had to do was capture Edirne.
That the Pope was sending hundreds of warships to the strait.
That's what I was told.
I want the truth!
I would have informed you, Your Majesty. We must clash with the Sultan head-on.
Johannes, surely you don't want to turn back now?
Your Majesty...
When we left, the ships were...
When we left, not one ship had set sail from Venice!
I wanted to tell you...
You've been lying all along.
You will defeat them. Now you can prove your greatness.
You've lead us to slaughter!
If Murad has crossed the strait,
is there any hope left at all?
If we keep heading east,
we'll reach the Black Sea in about a week.
Somewhere here.
Varna.
Why would we go there?
We'll be farther from Edirne than ever.
We're not going to Edirne, Sire.
We're too late.
What do you mean?
We have twenty thousand men.
Murad's army is twice that size.
This crusade is over.
You want to flee?
Once they've crossed the strait,
the Ottomans will catch up with us.
Your life must be saved.
Our nation needs a leader.
But for you to return to Hungary, we have to reach the sea.
And the men?
We'll stay to fight Murad.
And you?
You're very quiet.
Hunyadi is right, Your Majesty.
- I'll gladly escort you. - "Escort" me?
Isn't your place with the troops?
You're their commander, aren't you?
I won't run away.
Johannes...
Can you ever forgive me?
There's nothing to forgive, Your Majesty.
Then may I ask you to take charge of the army?
You may leave.
If I were you, I would stay put.
The boys have already ripped your tent apart.
We are born...
and one day we must die.
Do not fear death!
For can there be a more glorious death
than the heroic sacrifice of a martyr?
All those who fall today
will become Allah's holy warriors!
And if I too must leave,
we will meet again in Paradise,
my brothers.
May Allah help us,
may our victory be blessed!
Allahu akbar!
Your Majesty...
Don't you want to say a few words?
I...
Your king...
Today, here...
I...
You do it, Johannes.
Please.
Boys!
They have dumped us in the shit again!
They promised us troops...
ships...
the stars in the sky...
But we got nothing.
Yet again we've been betrayed.
But we're still here. And today we fight.
Even if it seems hopeless, we fight!
We're the sons of small nations.
Alone, the enemy might crush us one by one.
But here...
today...
we face them united!
Don't let their numbers scare you.
They've always outnumbered us, but they've never destroyed us!
If you have faith in me...
if you have faith in yourselves and in each other, my brothers...
and most of all, if you have faith in Jesus Christ...
then whatever the odds victory can be ours!
For Christ!
For our homelands!
- Where should I be? - Inside.
- What should I do? - Don't die!
Hajna works the pump, you load the howitzers.
- And you? - Wait and see!
I know who you are.
You're Hunyadi's son.
Shouldn't you be dressed in armor by his side?
He forbade me to come.
Know how to use it?
Good. Today, it's your best friend.
Poor kid! Today, he's going to die.
What did he say?
That you'll be a great warrior, just like your father.
Attack!
HUNYAD CASTLE THE KINGDOM OF HUNGARY
Have you brought news?
We need to talk.
Don't you want to feed me? I've had a long journey.
Why are you here, Miklos?
I want to make you an offer.
I will collect the taxes for you.
Without Hunyadi, it won't be easy for you, and I have my soldiers here.
How generous.
I must admit: I like you more and more.
Maybe it was a mistake to let you go.
I can't offer you food right now,
but you can finish your wine.
After that, I won't keep you any longer.
What's so good about him?
Hunyadi.
He's a better man in every way than you ever will be.
Maybe.
But if he doesn't make it back alive, that will hardly matter. Am I right?
Thank you for stopping by,
but we can collect the taxes ourselves.
We don't need you or your soldiers.
Wait!
Let's start over.
Janos will be very angry when he finds out you visited his castle with an army.
Watch how you speak to me.
I am Lord of Transylvania.
You can't just chop off my head.
Harder!
Bring oil!
Where do you take this? Put it there, let's go!
Keep them out!
Faster!
Go! We have enough of this.
Let's go forward!
Hold your positions, you too!
No!
We won.
I won, Father.
If I hadn't attacked their king with a thousand horsemen,
we'd be fleeing now.
I am the Sultan!
This victory is mine...
even if it was you who gave me it.
Listen...
They're happy to have spilled the blood of the infidels.
They're happy to have won.
That's all that matters to them.
They're celebrating me!
They'll remember that I led them to victory.
Then show them how to remember you.
I've got a job for you.
Find Hunyadi and bring him to me.
Everything will be alright once we've crossed the river.
Across the river lies Wallachia!
I know.
That place is more dangerous for us than a thousand battlefields.
If you tell the boys, half of them won't live to see tomorrow.
They need something to hope for or else they'll give up.
- And when we get there? - We'll figure it out.
If we make it that far.
Right, let's get to work.
Jakub!
When I say the word,
hold him down.
As hard as you can, okay?
Just a little longer.
Where's the King?
I've got to talk to him...
Forgive me, Janko...
I thought I'd never see you again.
It wasn't my father's win!
- They say it was a great victory. - He wanted to run away!
Murad is weak.
He's too weak to lead the empire!
Not so loud.
Help me force him to face it.
Radu! Are you here?
Miho?
He was lucky.
You call this luck?
How did I get here?
It's good to see you alive, brother.
Where's the King?
Vladislaus?
I need to talk to him.
I refuse to wait any longer.
But you promised Hunyadi you'd stay where it's safe, Majesty.
I'm not going to just sit here and watch as he wins my battle!
You're the King.
You decide for yourself.
You're right!
Get ready!
Charge!
A thousand gold coins to the man
who brings me their king's head!
Move it!
Father.
Father...
It's good to see that the devil hasn't called for you!
Not yet.
Radu?
He went to fetch help.
Get going.
What?
I'm not leaving without you.
You came against my orders.
I can't turn back time.
But I'm still your commander.
You're leaving. Now.
And you're coming back with an army.
It's my only chance to make it out of this country alive.
I thank Allah that you have come back to me, Glorious Sultan.
Come.
Stand up.
I was afraid I'd never see you again.
Well I'm here.
We won a great victory.
We defeated the Thunderbolt of War.
Hunyadi.
He's dead... or wounded.
We won the battle.
Come spring, we'll go back...
and conquer the whole of Europe.
I don't want you to go away again.
Stay here with me.
In the battle...
there was a moment when I thought
Allah had turned his back on us.
That he didn't want us
to win.
I...
Yes?
Nothing.
Listen to me.
Forget all this fighting.
Let's go away together.
We won't stop until we reach the sea.
Let's live in peace.
Leave your throne to Mehmed.
The others?
Where are they?
I sent them home.
What for?
This is Vlad's land. They weren't safe here.
- But we're miles away from anywhere! - We'd be valuable prisoners for Vlad.
Isn't that right?
I'd have rewarded you...
When you're safe at home, I've still got to survive here.
Stop!
Let the boy go.
Bring handcuffs.
You're not my son now.
No matter who asks, you're not my son, you got that?
Glorious Sultan, while you were away, I did some investigating.
I'm afraid
you were right about Ali's death.
The son of Vlad
was let out of his cell on the night Ali was killed.
Vladut?
Was it he who murdered my son?
I believe
he may have done it on Mehmed's orders.