Red Sonja is a 1985 sword and sorcery/action film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger with Brigitte Nielsen as the title character. It was shot in Italy, on location in Celano and the rest of the Abruzzo region, and in the Stabilimenti Cinematagrafici Pontini studios near Rome.
The movie begins with Red Sonja's brother and their parents being slaughtered by the evil Queen Gedren's (Sandahl Bergman) army because Sonja rejected the Queen's sexual advanc...
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Red Sonja is a 1985 sword and sorcery/action film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger with Brigitte Nielsen as the title character. It was shot in Italy, on location in Celano and the rest of the Abruzzo region, and in the Stabilimenti Cinematagrafici Pontini studios near Rome.
The movie begins with Red Sonja's brother and their parents being slaughtered by the evil Queen Gedren's (Sandahl Bergman) army because Sonja rejected the Queen's sexual advances. Sonja survives being violently raped by Gedren's troops, and even gives Gedren a kind of a souvenir: a brutal scar on the evil queen's face. Later that night, Sonja is visited by a spirit who grants her the strength to seek her revenge.
The story then jumps to a large temple full of white-robed priestesses. They are getting ready to destroy a large, glowing green orb called the Talisman. This dangerous artifact's destructive power increases from exposure to light and the priestesses intend to destroy it before it gets out of control....
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