Roland Joffe, the Oscar nominated director who brought us the highly acclaimed film, ”The Mission” & ”The Killing Fields”, has returned to silver screen with the epic movie ”There Be Dragons”, a powerful story of war, tragedy, love and redemption slated to release Spring 2011.

Featured in the NY Times, the $35 million Dragons tells the story of two childhood friends who become separated during the political conflict to find themselves on opposite sides as war erupts. One chooses the path of peace and becomes a priest while the other chooses the life of a soldier driven by jealousy and revenge. Each will struggle to find the power of forgiveness over the forces that tore their lives and friendship apart.

Charlie Cox, Wes Bentley, Rodrigo Santoro, Derek Jacobi, Golshifteh Farahani and Dougray Scott star.

Here’s the trailer :