The Battle of the Three Kings (film)
The Battle of the Three Kings (Russian: Bitva tryokh koroley, Italian: La battaglia dei tre tamburi di fuoco, Spanish: La batalla de los tres reyes, also known as Drums of Fire) is a 1990 Soviet-Italian-Spanish-Moroccan historical adventure-drama film directed by Souheil Ben-Barka and Uchkun Nazarov and starring Massimo Ghini and Ángela Molina. It depicts real life events of the Saadi Sultan of Morocco Abd el Malek I.
The Battle of the Three Kings (Russian: Bitva tryokh koroley, Italian: La battaglia dei tre tamburi di fuoco, Spanish: La batalla de los tres reyes, also known as Drums of Fire) is a 1990 Soviet-Italian-Spanish-Moroccan historical adventure-drama film directed by Souheil Ben-Barka and Uchkun Nazarov and starring Massimo Ghini and Ángela Molina. It depicts real life events of the Saadi Sultan of Morocco Abd el Malek I.

Plot
The film tells the story of the Saadi dynasty prince Abdelmalek, exiled from Morocco by his brothers. Since his exile, he will live twenty adventurous years: fight the Spanish Inquisition, take part in the Battle of Lepanto, be incarcerated in Alicante prison, and assist in the Conquest of Tunis. Eventually, he returns to Morocco to fulfill his destiny.

Cast
Massimo Ghini - as Abd el Malek
Ángela Molina - as Sophie
F. Murray Abraham - as Osrain
Ugo Tognazzi - as Carlo di Palma
Fernando Rey - as Pope Paul V
Claudia Cardinale - as Roxelane
Irene Papas - as Lalla Sahaba
Harvey Keitel - as Sandobal
Souad Amidou - as Meryem
Olegar Fedoro - as Father Tebaldo
Joaquín Hinojosa - as Akalay
Sergey Bondarchuk - as Selim
Viktor Korolev - as Monelo

See also
Battle of Ksar El Kebir

References
External links
The Battle of the Three Kings at IMDb