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Valhalla Rising (2009)
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
Cast: Mads Mikkelsen, Gary Lewis, Jamie Sives, Ewan Stewart
6.0
70%Runtime93 min
Rating15
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Scandinavia, 1,000 AD. For years, One Eye, a mute warrior of supernatural strength, has been held prisoner by the Norse chieftain Barde. Aided by Are, a boy slave, One Eye slays his captor and together he and Are escape, beginning a journey into the heart of darkness. On their flight, One Eye and Are board a Viking vessel, but the ship is soon engulfed by an endless fog that clears only as the crew sights an unknown land. As the new world reveals its secrets and the Vikings confront their terrible and bloody fate, One Eye discovers his true self.
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Director Nicolas Winding Refn's mesmerizing 2009 film Valhalla Rising blends visceral action, dreamlike fantasy, and meditative drama, creating a uniquely atmospheric and unsettling exploration of man's primal nature. Featuring a tour-de-force performance by Mads Mikkelsen as the mute, stoic 'One Eye', this genre-defying journey into the unknown will captivate fans of cerebral, visually-striking cinema.
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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. Instead, they find themselves in North America where they are assailed by Natives and dark visions.
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