A reckless young nobleman rides out alone to keep a strange bargain with a towering, bark-skinned stranger, in this 2021 fantasy adventure drawn from Arthurian legend.
What is The Green Knight about?
Set in the court of King Arthur, the story follows the king's headstrong young nephew, who accepts a New Year's challenge from a giant, green-skinned visitor and lands himself bound to a return match exactly one year later. Rather than let the promise quietly lapse, he sets out on a long, solitary journey through forests, ruins and strange households to honor it, chasing a reputation for honor before he has actually earned one. Along the way he meets talking beasts, wandering scavengers and a household that tests his resolve more than any monster could, each encounter chipping away at the bravado he left home with. The film treats the old legend less as a straightforward quest and more as a meditation on what courage costs a young man who has not yet been tested.
About the cast
Dev Patel leads the journey as the reckless nephew at the center of the legend, with Alicia Vikander and Joel Edgerton in key roles across his path. Sarita Choudhury, Sean Harris, Kate Dickie, Barry Keoghan and Erin Kellyman round out an ensemble of figures the hero meets along the road, each tied to a different test he faces.
Context & significance
Director David Lowery, working from the medieval Arthurian poem, builds the film around mood, texture and folklore rather than large-scale battle. Spanning Adventure, Drama and Fantasy, the 2021 catalogue title runs 130 minutes and was shot as a co-production across Canada, Ireland, the United Kingdom and the United States. Its pace is deliberately unhurried, closer to a fable told slowly than a conventional hero's journey, with green forests, decaying halls and folk-tale strangeness standing in for spectacle.
Watching The Green Knight on Ktime
The Green Knight is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, letting you follow the quest in a Farsi voice track or in the original English with Farsi subtitles laid over it. Access only requires a K-Time account login, and the whole viewing experience, from search to menus, is built around a Farsi interface for Persian-speaking viewers.