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Offline Von Stroheim

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Russian film Rise of the Scythians
« on: 13 August 2018, 06:22:25 PM »
German trailer for a Russian Film Rise of the Scythians - looks epic.

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Offline princeman

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Re: Russian film Rise of the Scythians
« Reply #1 on: 13 August 2018, 10:43:14 PM »
Looks interesting.
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Offline ayak333

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Re: Russian film Rise of the Scythians
« Reply #2 on: 15 August 2018, 01:44:27 AM »
It looks like the protagonists are Goths? (the ancient historians frequently referred to the goths as Scythians) Those helmets seem to be Germanic...
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Offline lethallee61

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Re: Russian film Rise of the Scythians
« Reply #3 on: 15 August 2018, 02:45:05 AM »
So many brilliant looking foreign films that we never get to see locally. Such a pity.
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Offline Askellad

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Re: Russian film Rise of the Scythians
« Reply #4 on: 15 August 2018, 09:58:00 PM »
Have seen it. Last scythians in a rus princes period. Not very accurate but not so bad. (But not very good at all)
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Offline Melnibonean

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Re: Russian film Rise of the Scythians
« Reply #5 on: 17 August 2018, 03:34:01 PM »
Looks like 300 meets Vikings meets Game of Thrones.
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Offline Captain Harlock

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Re: Russian film Rise of the Scythians
« Reply #6 on: 24 August 2018, 09:31:12 AM »
Quote from: ayak333 on 15 August 2018, 01:44:27 AM
It looks like the protagonists are Goths? (the ancient historians frequently referred to the goths as Scythians) Those helmets seem to be Germanic...
I guess by ancients you reffere to late Romans and mainly Eastern Romans. Well they seemed to have a tendency for using archaisms when writing formal texts. It was a way to prove themselves as scholars by using fancy ancient terms and they did it to the point of exhaustion. So we can see that in original sources many migrating populations were named as another group known from classical or later antiquity. For example they named almost every horse culture steppe people as Scythians. Then in the same text they might call them Sarmatians. Its really a mess and its easy to be comfused if you take them literally. Another example. They used to call the proto Russians that entered the varangian guard as Tauroscythians. A name that continued to be used even when the guard was mainly scandinavian or english.
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