The Blood of Heroes
Director: David Peoples
Genre: Science Fiction, Sports, Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, World cinema
Year: 1989
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Language: English Language
Starring: Rutger Hauer, Delroy Lindo, Joan Chen, Vincent Phillip D'Onofrio, Casey Huang, Aaron Martin, Gandhi MacIntyre, Justin Monjo
The Blood of Heroes is a 1989 post-apocalyptic film directed by David Webb Peoples and starring Rutger Hauer and Joan Chen. The film is also known by the names The Salute of the Jugger and Salute to the Jugger. The film has inspired the creation of the sport Jugger.
Produced by Charles Roven and released by Kings Road Entertainment, the film is set in a post-apocalyptic future, where the wars waged in the 20th century have left the world barren and the past forgotten. Most live from hand to mouth in enclaves known as "market-towns" or "dog-towns", scrounging out a bare subsistence harvesting hardy crops, raising dogs as food, and trading in trinkets from the past.
What little entertainment comes primarily from a brutal sport known as The Game. It is played by bands of roving teams known as juggers, who challenge local teams. They might be considered professional athletes, as they make their living through the tribute paid by the town people, should they defeat the local team. Their trophy is the dog skull from the town. The Game involves two armoured teams of five attempting to score by placing a dog skull on the opposing team's goalpost. One unarmed player - the "quick" - runs
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