Ossian

The time is the 3rd century AD. King Starno of Sweden is envious of mighty warrior Fingal, legendary chief of the Hebridean Isles, and nurses a bitter hatred of him. Too weak to attack the islands’ king directly, he chooses to covertly draw Fingal into war. He sends his son to raid the destabilised Irish realm, controlled by Cuthullin on behalf of the boy-king Cormac. Sworn in allegiance and friendship to Cuthullin, brave Fingal, with his son Ossian by his side, arrives in time to witness the near-defeat of Éire. The battle that ensues lasts for three days, at the end of which Fingal too has to face personal losses. Adapted from James Macpherson’s OSSIAN cycle of poems, this feature film takes us back to the age of Nordic and Gaelic heroes, in which man’s greatest concern is not life, but the manner in which he dies. The epic is set in Scandinavia and Ireland.