A successful story combining the fantasy genre with elements of medieval chivalry. The Dragonheart offers pleasant humour, the struggle between good and evil, chivalric honour, courage and great sacrifice.

Einon’s cruel father dies one day while quelling a rebellion of the villagers. Einon becomes king. However, he is badly wounded in the rebellion. His heart is wounded. His life is to be saved by half a dragon’s heart.

On his way to the dragon, he takes a royal oath in which he promises to be a good and virtuous king. However, after his life is saved with the help of the dragon, he becomes an even crueler and more ruthless ruler than his father was.

Bowen, who has known Einon since he was young, and who has taught him much, is disappointed and becomes convinced that Einon has become a bad man because he is enchanted by the dragon. For this reason, he decides to kill all the dragons in the land.

He somehow fails to kill the last one, and since he discovers that the dragon is quite a handful, he decides to make a deal with him. The dragon will simulate that Bowen killed it, and he will rake in money from the villagers, whose lives he will “save” from the dragon. Thus, even Bowen isn’t acting like a real knight anymore at that point.

Among the villagers, Bowen meets a girl named Kara, who dreams of the people rising up against the oppression of King Einon. For her plan, she eventually wins over both the dragon and Bowen, who renews his allegiance to the principles of chivalry. When the villagers discover that the dragon himself will be on their side and that Bowen will teach them how to fight, they decide to rebel as well.

In order to defeat Einon, the dragon, who is the bearer of Einon’s life in his half of the heart, must die. As long as the dragon lives, Einon is immortal.

Parents Guide: Multiple fight scenes. The brutality of Einon is depicted in several scenes while killing his subjects.

Cast: Dennis Quaid, David Thewlis, Pete Postlethwaite, Dina Meyer, Jason Isaacs, Brian Thompson, Eva Vejmělková, Milan Bahúl, Julie Christie, Sean Connery, John Gielgud, Miroslav Kasprzyk

Crew: Rob Cohen

USA, 1996

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