Black Death
Director: Christopher Smith
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Mystery, Action, Adventure, Action/Adventure, Drama
Year: 2010
Country: Germany, United Kingdom
Language: English Language
Starring: Sean Bean, Carice van Houten, Eddie Redmayne, John Lynch, Kimberley Nixon, Tim McInnerny, Andy Nyman, Johnny Harris, Tygo Gernandt, David Warner, Nike Martens, Daniel Steiner, Emun Elliott, Jamie Ballard, Gotthard Lange, Marianne Graffam
Black Death is a 2010 historical adventure horror film directed by Christopher Smith from an original screenplay by Dario Poloni. It stars Sean Bean, Eddie Redmayne and Carice van Houten.
The film takes place in 1348 in plague-ridden medieval England. Osmund (Eddie Redmayne), a young monk, has unbeknownst to his brothers fallen in love with Averill (Kimberley Nixon), a young girl who took sanctuary in the monastery. After the plague befalls his monastery, he believes it is no longer safe and sends her home to the forest. She asks him to join her, but he declines on account of his vows, after which she tells him she will wait for him at the edge of the forest by a marker for one week. Soon after, Osmund prays that God will give him a sign, as he wishes to leave to join her. As he is doing so, a group of soldiers enters the Church looking for a guide to a village not far from where Osmund's love Averill was to wait for him. Osmund takes this as a sign and volunteers to lead the knight Ulric (Sean Bean) and a group of soldiers to a remote marshland village which has remained untouched by the Black Death. Their quest is to hunt down a necromancer, who is rumoured to be able to bring
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