Sandra Clark I didn't like this film at all. It's way too long and has nothing interesting to say other than Germans bad, Poland good, but it does it over 2 hours 46 minutes.I doubt many people would sympathize with the Teutonic Order to begin with - if some action film presented someone dressed as a Teutonic knight, viewers would say it's cheesy and over-the-top. This movie doesn't take chances and makes sure that you know who the good ones are and who the baddies are. There is no subtlety whatsoever. It's good-vs-evil. There are no doubts. Everyone has their team and a job to do. No ulterior motives, no double-agents, no deep game, no sacrifice a battle to win the war. It's just black and white.There are the goofs that others mentioned (the watch, the cars), but I didn't care for those either way. The film is boring. The music is boring. The dialogues are really poor.The acting is theatrical. It looks like a color version of Alexander Nevsky (1939) with a bigger budget but not with more experience. It doesn't add anything new, doesn't advance cinema, doesn't bring anything new to the table. It is propaganda (just like Alexander Nevsky) but at a time when it wasn't really necessary. What was the point in telling people that Germany was bad in 1960? Propaganda doesn't age well in either case.The final scene is epic and amazing on its own. It must be watched, just for that. It's a shame that it's wasted on this film that has nothing interesting to say.

Oslo Jargo (Bartok Kinski) Watching this was a chore. It is, for the entire length of the film, nothing but anti-German Propaganda. The Teutonic Knights are played by steel eyed doofuses. The battle scenes are terrible; repetitive editing, horse riders jumping off horses for no reason, and no one is ever hit by a weapon it seems. Plus, there's not enough extras to fill in the gaps for the battle so it looks like a small fight between inept idiots.The Polish are played by good natured nobles and there's an annoying quote to "god" about every 20 seconds. I can't recommend this since it's so tepid and dull.

mark-210 It's a well-made film but you have to consider the political circumstances: Polish party-leader Wladyslaw Gomulka needed another symbol of convincing his nation that the Germans were and are the biggest enemies in the world...

woitiki This movie has the best battallistic scenes which concept was used in other Hollywood productions. Great performance of Leon Niemczyk and Aleksander Fogiel.Perfectly based on novel by Henryk Sienkiewicz. This movie used 300 horses from Mosfilm, Moscow, for battallistic scenes.