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Club Movie Night
Thu, 23 May
|Adelaide
Movie Night: El Cid
Time & Location
23 May 2024, 5:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Adelaide, 111 Hutt St, Adelaide SA 5000, Australia
About the event
Movie Night & Dinner - Thursday, 23 May 2024
Film: El Cid
El Cid is a 1961 epic historical drama film directed by Anthony Mann and produced by Samuel Bronston.
The film, is loosely based on the life of the 11th-century Castilian warlord Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, called "El Cid" (from the Arabic al-sidi, meaning "The Lord"). The film stars Charlton Heston in the title role and Sophia Loren as Doña Jimena.
General Ben Yusuf of the Almoravid dynasty has summoned all the emirs of Al-Andalus to North Africa. He chastises them for co-existing peacefully with their
Christian neighbours, which goes against his dream of Islamic world domination. The emirs return to Spain with orders to resume hostilities with the Christians while Ben Yusuf readies his army for a full-scale invasion.