A can't really add very much to what others have written about the plot, except for my very vague memory of what may be the final scene. For that reason, please do not read on unless you want to see a possible spoiler! (assuming I've remembered it right!).
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I saw this just once 27 years ago and I've never forgotten it, even though I couldn't remember the title again for a long time (until today!). A fantasy set in medieval times, it had the same kind of realistic but romanticised "feel" of something like John Boorman's Excalibur or the Robin of Sherwood TV series, with the use of dark filters to make the film moody and atmospheric. The "knight" (presumably the Black Angel of the title?) was, I think, dressed a bit like the Black Knight from Monty Python and the Holy Grail ("It's just a graze!"), with one of those archetypal flat-topped helmets with an eye slit, and black armour. I think he may have been on some sort of "quest", although my memory is so vague that I may be confusing it with Arthurian stories like Excalibur.
Unlike other people, I remember seeing the film as a support to the ecological horror film Prophecy (1979). Remembering the title of that film (Prophecy) and the year it was made led me eventually to work out that this film's title was Black Angel, released the same year. Presumably, it made sufficient impact for it to be used to support The Empire Strikes Back the following year? The only scene I seem to remember from it is what I think may have been the ending. The "knight" is killed (maybe blown up somehow or shot by arrows? - I said my memory of the film was sketchy!), and after his body flies through the air (in slow motion, probably) it ends up sinking to the bottom of a lake..? That may be completely wrong, but as I say this is a 27 year old memory!
A similar but expanded story set in the same period and filmed in the same style might have made a great feature film.
This is one film I would love to watch again to see if it was as awesome as I remember, but being a short it seems unlikely, unless it's perhaps been posted on the internet somewhere..?
Well worth 25 minutes of your time if you ever get the opportunity.
SPOILER! SPOILER! SPOILER! SPOILER!
I saw this just once 27 years ago and I've never forgotten it, even though I couldn't remember the title again for a long time (until today!). A fantasy set in medieval times, it had the same kind of realistic but romanticised "feel" of something like John Boorman's Excalibur or the Robin of Sherwood TV series, with the use of dark filters to make the film moody and atmospheric. The "knight" (presumably the Black Angel of the title?) was, I think, dressed a bit like the Black Knight from Monty Python and the Holy Grail ("It's just a graze!"), with one of those archetypal flat-topped helmets with an eye slit, and black armour. I think he may have been on some sort of "quest", although my memory is so vague that I may be confusing it with Arthurian stories like Excalibur.
Unlike other people, I remember seeing the film as a support to the ecological horror film Prophecy (1979). Remembering the title of that film (Prophecy) and the year it was made led me eventually to work out that this film's title was Black Angel, released the same year. Presumably, it made sufficient impact for it to be used to support The Empire Strikes Back the following year? The only scene I seem to remember from it is what I think may have been the ending. The "knight" is killed (maybe blown up somehow or shot by arrows? - I said my memory of the film was sketchy!), and after his body flies through the air (in slow motion, probably) it ends up sinking to the bottom of a lake..? That may be completely wrong, but as I say this is a 27 year old memory!
A similar but expanded story set in the same period and filmed in the same style might have made a great feature film.
This is one film I would love to watch again to see if it was as awesome as I remember, but being a short it seems unlikely, unless it's perhaps been posted on the internet somewhere..?
Well worth 25 minutes of your time if you ever get the opportunity.