The year was 1985 when in cinemas around the world was projected to Ladyhawke by Richard Donner, a new U.S. film destined to enter the annals of fantasy on the big screen. Starring a very young Matthew Broderick, already reached success through the adolescent rebel WarGames, here in the role of Gaston Philippe, Rutger Hauer, acclaimed interpreter of a scary cyborg in Blade Runn, now as Captain Etienne Navarre, and Finally, the charming Scarface Elvira, better known as Michelle Pfeiffer, this time disguised as Isabeau d'Anjou, the young mysterious wheel around which the whole story.
The story takes place in the middle of the Middle Ages, sometime in a fortified village in central Europe where the little thief Phillipe Gaston, the Mouse said for his petite physique, escapes from the prisons of the castle of Aguillon shortly before his execution. 
Phillip will not be easy to understand that his dark savior is actually the victim of a curse, hurled against him and his beloved from the evil Bishop of the county, fell in love with a young woman without being paid, is to use magic to split the pair. And è così che di giorno lei si trasforma nello splendido falco che Navarre cura e protegge con dedizione, mentre la notte lui assume le sembianze di un feroce lupo grigio, docile solo alle carezze di Isabeau. 
In loro soccorso subentra ben presto anche il vecchio eremita Imperius, un tempo monaco al castello del Vescovo, ripudiato da quest’ultimo e a conoscenza del triste segreto dei due amanti, che svela a Navarre l’unica via di salvezza: i due potranno rompere il maleficio soltanto se riusciranno ad assumere le loro sembianze umane, nel medesimo istante, davanti agli occhi del Prelato. Per farlo essi dovranno tornare al castello del Vescovo nell’attesa dell’imminente arrival of "a day without the night and a night without day," Elder foreshadowed in a dream I guess.
An escape, a meeting, a love story, all focus, therefore, about the attempt - the final satisfied - Isabella and Navarro returning to the town of Aguillon to break the spell that has long and keeps them separated so they can once again reunite as two lovers made.
CURIOSITY ':
- The location from which escapes Philippe, in the original plot and the eagle and the Bishop is the Vesco the city, but in the Italian dubbing L'Aquila became Aguillon to recruit French-speaking calls, both for consistency with the names of the characters, is probably for fear that presenting a "bad" identified as an Italian film could be criticized by our public.
- Despite the recall, in the Italian, a French-style setting, the film was shot (in line with the original story) almost entirely in Italy, between the provinces of Parma and Piacenza in the Park Nazionale del Gran Sasso and Monti della Laga, Campo Imperatore (L'Aquila in the Province). The refuge is the Rock of Monaco Calascio (pictured above), while the suburbs Medieval shown include the places Torrechiara, Castell, Soncino, Bacedasco of Vernon. The church inside which there is the final scene is San Pietro in Tuscania.
- The soundtrack of the film is the work of the composer and orchestrator Andrew Powell. In 1996 it was published the final version, entitled "Ladyhawke - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack," which replaces the first version of 1985 and contains new songs and reworked.
- The film was nominated for an Oscar in 1986 for Best Sound (Best Sound) and Best Sound Editing (Best Effects - Sound Effects Editing), but not win. Ladyhawke, however, has brought home the "Saturn Award of the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films for Best Costume Design (Best Costumes) and Best fantasy film (Best Fantasy Film), also received nominations for Best Music (Best Music) and Best Actress (Best Actress ). Among the other awards we are also mindful of the Golden Reel Award Motion Picture Sound Editors Best Sound Editing U.S. - ADR and Best Sound Editing - Sound Effects.
- The Sword of Navarre is a small anachronism in the film has a shape next to the thirteenth century, a period in which the story takes place
- The eclipse profile from the rose window of the church, while Navarre beats Marquet.
- Navarre, in the final sequence, he entered the church and engages in a duel with a soldier who took his place as captain of the guard: the combat is mostly "one by one, typical of styles such as greek, not medieval.
No one else dares to move, including the platoon of soldiers who exceed Navarre before entering the city, and even when the bishop was killed, none of the many clergymen present lift a finger: you arrive at the scene final where Isabeau Navarre raises his arms in the applause of all. If you give for granted that no one knows the story of the curse, seems rather irrational, then a plot in cui un uomo entra in chiesa durante la funzione, attacca le guardie, uccide il Vescovo, e per questo viene applaudito.
- Leo McKern, interprete dell’eremita Imperius, si è spento il 23 luglio del 2002, un paio di anni dopo essersi ritirato dalla scena teatrale a causa del diabete e di altri problemi di salute.
CITAZIONI:
- "Non ho visto ciò che i miei occhi hanno visto, non credo ciò che la mia mente crede, mio Dio. Queste sono cose magiche, sono cose misteriose, di cui ti prego, Signore, non rendermi partecipe."
- "È giorno vecchio mio. Lo era ieri e lo sarà domani. "
-"Signore, in verità I talk to God all the time, but, no offense, do not ever appointed. "
-" I believe in miracles, Marquet. My role requires me to. "
-" The best results I obtained with lies "
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