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The Black Rose
UNITED KINGDOM · 1950

The Black Rose

Henry Hathaway
adventure exile and redemption Mongol Empire medieval politics cross-cultural encounters
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Synopsis

In the 13th century, Walter of Gurnie, a disinherited Saxon youth, is forced to flee England. With his friend, Tristram, he falls in with the army of the fierce but avuncular General Bayan, and journeys all the way to China, where both men become involved in intrigues in the court of Kublai Khan.

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