在这部十字军剧情/爱情/历史/战争片中,故事发生在十一世纪末期，为了对抗占领了圣城耶路撒冷的撒拉逊人，罗马教皇组织了一支十字军。理查德（约翰内斯·波兰特 约翰内斯·波兰特 Johannes Brandrup 饰）、皮特（亚利桑德罗·加斯曼 Alessandro Gassman 饰）和安德鲁（菲力·莱福斯丁 Thure Riefenstein 饰）三名热血青年秉着保家卫国的热血之心参加了十字军，虽然三人分别来自不同的阶级，有着各自不为人知的过去，但战场上，他们很快就成为了生死与共的好友。
但随着世家的推移，三个年轻人对十字军的暴行开始产生了分歧，最终，安德鲁跟随着军队继续前行，皮特和理查德则留在了耶路撒冷。
Towards the end of the eleventh century, Pope Urban II announces a crusade against the Saracens, who have occupied the holy city of Jerusalem. Three young friends # Richard, Peter and Andrew # set off to join the crusading army. The three friends come from very different backgrounds: Andrew is a shepherd; Peter is a poor bell founder, and the illegitimate son of a Christian woman and a Saracen man; and Richard is the deeply religious son of Baron William of Aurocastro, who was murdered by his rival brother Corrado. The violent methods used by the crusaders soon cause the three friends to fall out with each other, and after a bloody attack on a Jewish monastery, they go their separate ways: Andrew remains with the crusaders, while Peter and Richard accompany the attractive Jewess Rachel # whose teacher, a rabbi, was killed in the raid # to Jerusalem. Andrew is very reluctant to see Rachel go, having # like Peter # fallen in love with her at first sight. In Jerusalem the situation is ...
