directed by Renzo Martinelli written by Valerio Massimo Manfredi, Renzo Martinelli director of photography Fabio Cianchetti costume design by Massimo Cantini Parrini producers Renzo Martinelli, Alessandro Leone co-produced by Rai Cinema, Rai Fiction, Martinelli Film Company International, Agresywna Banda co-financed by Polish Film Institute, Italian Ministry of Culture, Piemonte Region, Lomabardia Region, Friuli Venezia Giulia Region world sales Rai Trade distribution in Poland Monolith Films cast F. Murray Abraham (Marco D'Aviano), Enrico Lo Verso (Kara Mustafa), Jerzy Skolimowski (Jan III Sobieski), Alicja Bachleda-Curuś (princess Eleonora Lotaryńska), Piotr Adamczyk (Leopold I Habsburg), Edward Linde-Lubaszenko (Jan Andrzej Morsztyn), Borys Szyc (Mikołaj Adam Sieniawski), Wojciech Mecwaldowski (Jerzy Franciszek Kulczycki), Marcin Walewski (Jakub "Fanfan" Sobieski), Daniel Olbrychski (general Marcin Kazimierz Kątski), Antonio Cupo (Karol Lotaryński)
35mm, Cinemascope, colour, Dolby Digital, 110'
Poland / Turkey / Italy 2012
Italian-Polish superproduction presenting the great victory of Poland over the Ottoman Empire. September 11, 1683. Thousands of soldiers take part in a life and death battle at the walls of Vienna. Europe struggles to defend its land and its identity. Three hundred thousand soldiers of the Turkish Empire had made their way to Vienna, leaving behind them a path traced with death, blood and suffering. Their leader, the great Vizier Kara Mustafa, leads them in battle, aiming to destroy Christianity and take control over Europe's land. But European nations join forces to defend their identity and bravely face their oppressor, spiritually supported by Italian monk Marco D'Aviano and Polish king Jan III Sobieski and his hussars.
