This epic movie contains feats, a romantic love story, adventures, thundering action, thrills, and historical events. Good film with lavish production values dealing with events leading up to British involvement in Crimean war with stunning final battle sequence. Honor the charge they made ¡ Honor the Light Brigade, Noble Six Hundred ¡. When can their glory fade ? O the wild charge they made ¡ All the world'd. ¨Forward, the Light Brigade ¡ Charge of the guns¨ he said, into the valley of death rode the six hundred. Cannon to right of them, cannon to left of them, cannon in front of them volley'd and thunder'd. 1856." It is based on Lord Tennyson's famous poem : Half a league, half a league onward, all in the valley of death rode the six hundred. The film is dedicated "to the officers and men of the Light Brigade who died victorious in a gallant charge at Balaklava for Queen and Country - A.D. As military minds blunder and six hundred Britishers, sabers flashing, ride to their deaths. Later on, occurs the siege of Sevastopol and the fierce ¨Battle of Balaklava¨ on Octowhich climaxed with the heroic, but near-disastrous cavalry charge made by the British Light Brigade against a Russian artillery battery in a small valley which resulted in the near-destruction of the brigade. In Balaklava is the Allied Headquarters, Army of the Crimea, and the new post of the 27th Lancers. This drama deals with the chronicle of events that led to the British involvement in the Crimean War against Russia. International events, however, were soon to overshadow it in the world at large for the hounds of war had been unleashed and England was pouring troops into the Crimea to oppose the Russian hordes, the wave of war preparations swept into Calcuta. After that, a massacre takes place at Chukoti, it seared into the minds of the 27th Lancers, a livid scar never to heal. At the beginning the tale is set in Suristan, it could be seen as part of the "Great game" that was fought for nearly a century between the British and Russian empires for control in the Middle East.
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