Prince Amleth is on the verge of becoming a man when his father is brutally murdered by his uncle, who kidnaps the boy's mother. Two decades later, Amleth is now a Viking who's on a mission to save his mother, kill his uncle and avenge his father.
Direction
Eggers' obsessive historical authenticity borders on madness.
Cinematography
Shot on location in brutal weather; you feel the cold.
Practical Effects
Real fire, real mud, real suffering — barely any CGI.
Director
Robert Eggers
Alexander Skarsgård
Amleth
Nicole Kidman
Queen Gudrún
Claes Bang
Fjölnir the Brotherless
Ethan Hawke
King Aurvandil War-Raven
Anya Taylor-Joy
Olga of the Birch Forest
Gustav Lindh
Thórir the Proud
Elliott Rose
Gunnar
Willem Dafoe
Heimir the Fool
Phill Martin
Hallgrímr Half-Troll
Eldar Skar
Finnr the Nose-Stub
Olwen Fouéré
Áshildur Hofgythja
Ingvar E. Sigurðsson
He-Witch
Oscar Novak
Young Amleth
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Eggers consulted historians and linguists to recreate Old Norse and pagan rituals with near-academic rigor.
Alexander Skarsgård spent months bulking to 'Viking size' then cut aggressively for the starving-slave sequences.
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i love how the critics' reviews are R rated themselves
@tomerfeller9993 432
This looks absolutely incredible. Haven’t been this excited for a movie for a long time
@Mullac40k 426
I was fortunate enough to watch this in the U.K. at my cinema and it was incredible. Visceral and brutal as you would expect a movie of this calibre and theme to deliver. 10/10!
@RS-jb1lf 288
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