Sema - The Warrior of Ayodhaya
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| German title | Sema - The Warrior of Ayodhaya |
| Original title | ขุนศึก |
| Country of production | Thailand |
| original language | Thai |
| Publishing year | 2003 |
| length | 113 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 ( SPIO / JK ) |
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| Director | Thanit Jitnukun |
| script | Kongkiat Khomsiri, Yosapong Polsap |
| production | Thanit Jitnukun, Isara Nadee, Arunotai Aeanjitranon, Pasith Buranajan |
| music | Tippatai pirompug |
| camera | Wardhana Vunchuplou |
| cut | Uruphong Raksasad, Chayaporn Jetkasetkorn, Wardhana Vunchuplou |
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Sema - The Warrior of Ayodhaya ( Thai : ขุนศึก , pronunciation: kʰǔn sʉ̀k - warlord ) is a Thai historical film with elaborate sword fighting scenes, set against the historical background of a Burmese (then “Hongsawadi” / Pegu ) invasion of the Siamese kingdom of Ayutthaya in the 16th century . The forbidden love between the noble Rerai (Thai: เรไร ) and Sema ( เสมา ), a warrior of lower class, as well as the resulting conflict between Sema and a high-ranking officer, to whom the woman promised to marry, is in the foreground of the epic, created in 2003 has been. Directed by Thanit Jitnukun based on a novel by Mai Mueang-Doem (Thai: ไม้ เมือง เดิม ) and Sumthum Bun-Kuea ( สุมทุม บุญ เกื้อ ).
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Sema, the young son of the aging armorer , is a gifted swordsman whose greatest desire is to join the royal troops. However, his hopes are not fulfilled because his seriously ill and indebted father needs him for the sweaty production of long swords . The father also finds it difficult to separate from his now grown-up son, whom he, like his younger daughter Chamrueang ( จำเรียง ), does not want to lose.
One day, through his sister, he met the wealthy, extremely good-natured Rerai, daughter of a high-ranking city administrator, with whom he immediately fell in love. Although she seems inaccessible to him, in addition to the higher social class , she is promised to the glorious and jealous swordsman Khan ( หมู่ ขัน ), he succeeds in conquering her heart - a forbidden romance begins. This inevitably triggers a conflict with the aspiring Captain Khan, who, at the latest, when the bourgeois Semas joins the swordsman instructor of the royal guards, sweardles. An old friend of his father's had previously managed to recruit him for an imminent armed conflict with the soldiers of the Burmese king.
The committed Sema starts his military career together with his former criminal childhood friend Sombun ( สมบุญ ) and the simple-minded day laborer Sin ( สิน ). However, this does not go unnoticed and the high-ranking and unscrupulous officer Khan is feeling increasingly humiliated. Since, however, the still existing class difference forbids him a clarifying armed duel, but he still wants to take revenge on his successful rival, Khan blackmailed the insolvent old blacksmith against the will of the insolvent old blacksmith, removing Chamrueang from his care; as "security" for outstanding liabilities. This approach provokes Sema, like his loyal companions Sombun and Sin, to lead an argument with Khan's soldiers. In the following fighting, Sema kills a soldier of the royal guard and as a now wanted perpetrator flees - if caught, he faces imprisonment - to a neighboring military unit. Here, the refugee is once again devoting himself to combat training for the upcoming battle that will end with a victory for his own armed forces.
Because of his services to the recent military victory, Sema approaches the king, who then pardons him for the committed murder, but not without degrading him to elephant keeper - the mild sentence is once again an affront for Khan. The tension between him and Sema seems to explode. When two of Khan's henchmen rape Sema's sister, the avenging zookeeper confronts the tormentors and brutally kills them. The recent offense, however, remains unpunished despite the moderate intervention of Khan, as an advancing vanguard of the Burmese invaders must be fought, for which every battle-hardened man is needed.
Extremely brutal and bloody fighting takes its course, with many dead on both sides, when Sema suddenly advances to the enemy troops and makes them a proposal to duel generals against elephant keepers, i.e. himself. Since it seems too dishonorable to the opposing military leader to fight a "normal man", but he is in principle ready to do so, Sema self-confidently recognizes his chance and, in the midst of the gradually stopping fighting, asks the king a high military rank for himself successfully to be able to duel with his opponent. The king agrees, Sema is victorious in the following feud.
At the end of the film, the title hero is finally allowed to fight the long-awaited sword fight against Khan, which he soon wins; the defeated Khan leaves in silence. Meanwhile, Sema can hug his waiting Rerai. In the last scene of the film, the inevitable battle with the main force of the enemy is briefly hinted at. The further course is not mentioned.
Reviews
“Large-scale action spectacle based on a successful novel in Thailand. The largely sterile mixture of fight and romance is convincing at best in the rather bloody battle scenes. "
Web links
- Sema - The Warrior of Ayodhaya in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Thai site about Sema with photos (in Thai)