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In AD 922, Arab courtier Ahmad Ibn Fadlan accompanies a party of Vikings to the barbaric North. Ibn... The 13th Warrior is a 1999 action film based on Michael Crichton's novel Eaters of the Dead, directed by John McTiernan and an uncredited Crichton, and starring Antonio Banderas as Ahmad ibn Fadlan and Vladimir Kulich as Buliwyf (Beowulf).

The novel upon which the film is based and loosely inspired by Richard Frye's translation of ibn Fadlan's non-fictional account of his travels up the river Volga in the tenth century. The plot is largely a modernized retelling of the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf, with elements added from The Book of One Thousand and One Nights.

The film goes to some pains to achieve a historical atmosphere, including use of Arabic, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Greek and Latin dialogue.

CAST \ CHARATERS

Antonio Bandera \Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan Vladimir Kulich \ Buliwyf (Beowulf) Dennis Storh\ Herger - Joyous (as Dennis Storhoi) Daniel Southern .\Edgtho - Silent Neil Maffin \Roneth John DeSantis \Ragnar - Dour (as John Desantis) Clive Russell \Helfdane - Fat Mischa Hausserman\Rethel - Archer Oliver Sveinall\ Haltaf - Boy

Directed by John McTiernan