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2009
Valhalla Rising is a 2009 English-language Danish period adventure film directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, co-written by Refn and Roy Jacobsen, and starring Mads Mikkelsen. The film takes place "most certainly during the twelfth century of our era", and follows a Norse warrior named One-Eye and a boy as they travel with a band of Christian Crusaders by ship in the hopes of finding the Holy Land.
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One might think that films about the clash between the old Norse beliefs and the new christian waves from the south at the turn of the first millennium, would be a somewhat common theme in Nordic cinema, but that is not the case as far as i am concerned. Valhalla Rising deals with this topic to some extend and i was hoping, that this was the main theme. One-eye is a mute prisoner who is used in a small viking versio…More
