A woman and a warrior that became a legend.
The tyrant Gedren seeks the total power in a world of barbarism. She raids the city Hablac and kills the keeper of a talisman that gives her great power. Red Sonja, sister of the keeper, sets out with her magic sword to overthrow Gedren.
- 5.4
- 1985
- Released
- 1h 29m
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Kalidor
Brigitte Nielsen
Red Sonja
Sandahl Bergman
Queen Gedren
Paul L. Smith
Falkon
Ernie Reyes Jr.
Prince Tarn
Ronald Lacey
Ikol
Pat Roach
Brytag
Terry Richards
Djart
Janet Ågren
Varna
Donna Osterbuhr
Kendra, the High Priestess
Lara Lamberti
Gedren's Handmaid
Hans Meyer
Red Sonja's Father
Francesca Romana Coluzzi
Red Sonja's Mother
Tutte Lemkow
WizardKiyoshi Yamasaki
Kyobo
Tad Horino
Swordmaster
Sven-Ole Thorsen
Bodyguard of Lord Brytag (uncredited)
Erik Holmey
Warrior (uncredited)
Released
en
$17,900,000.00
$6,948,633.00
- #monster
- #swordplay
- #villainess
- #queen
- #talisman
- #based on comic
- #warrior
- #high fantasy
- #sword and sorcery
Reviews
Hot off the back of his outing as "Conan", Arnold Schwarzenegger teams up with Brigitte Nielsen in the eponymous role as both have to avenge the killing of her family and the destruction of her homeland by the evil "Gedren" (Sandahl Bergman). Their task is not helped much by their alighting on the precociously irritating Prince "Tarn" (Ernie Reyes Jnr.) and his nice but dim bodyguard "Falkon" (Pau
Not a good REH interpretation (it’s too campy), but entertaining in some ways "Red Sonja" (1985) is essentially "Conan 3," after "Conan the Barbarian" (1982) and "Conan the Destroyer" (1984). Schwarzenegger plays the barbarian 'Kalidor' here because the filmmakers didn't have the rights to the 'Conan' name since 'Red Sonja' was owned by a company separate from the REH people, yet -- strangely