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The Northman
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7.0Prince 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.
Cast
- Alexander Skarsgård as Amleth
- Nicole Kidman as Queen Gudrún
- Claes Bang as Fjölnir the Brotherless
- Ethan Hawke as King Aurvandil War-Raven
- Anya Taylor-Joy as Olga of the Birch Forest
- Gustav Lindh as Thórir the Proud
Themes
- sword
- prince
- gore
- vikings (norsemen)
- iceland
- northern ireland
- sword fight
- revenge
- fate
- king
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Ratings
IMDb
7/10
298,461 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
90%
Metacritic
82/100
- Year
- 2022
- Runtime
- 137 min
- Genres
- Action, Adventure, Drama
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- 5 wins & 55 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Robert Eggers
- Written by
- Sjón Robert Eggers
- Based on
- The legend of Amleth , by Saxo Grammaticus
- Produced by
- Mark Huffam Lars Knudsen Robert Eggers Alexander Skarsgård Arnon Milchan
- Starring
- Alexander Skarsgård Nicole Kidman Claes Bang Anya Taylor-Joy Gustav Lindh Ethan Hawke Björk Willem Dafoe
- Cinematography
- Jarin Blaschke
- Edited by
- Louise Ford
- Music by
- Robin Carolan Sebastian Gainsborough
- Production companies
- Focus Features Regency Enterprises New Regency Square Peg Perfect World Pictures
- Distributed by
- Focus Features (United States) Universal Pictures (International)
- Release dates
- April 18, 2022 ( 2022-04-18 ) ( TCL Chinese Theatre ) April 22, 2022 ( 2022-04-22 ) (United States)
- Running time
- 136 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Languages
- English Old Norse Old East Slavic
- Budget
- $70 million
- Box office
- $75.8 million
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Encyclopedic overview
The Northman is a 2022 American epic period action fantasy film directed by Robert Eggers, who co-wrote the screenplay with Sjón. Based on the legend of Amleth from Gesta Danorum by Saxo Grammaticus, the film follows Amleth, an exiled Viking prince who sets out on a quest to avenge the murder of his father at the hands of his uncle at the height of the Viking Age. It features an ensemble cast of Alexander Skarsgård, Nicole Kidman, Claes Bang, Anya Taylor-Joy, Gustav Lindh, Ethan Hawke, Björk, and Willem Dafoe.
Eggers and Skarsgård, who both also produced, had met to discuss possible collaborations; Eggers decided to make the film his third project after meeting with Skarsgård, who had wanted to make a Viking film for several years. Much of the cast joined in October 2019 and filming took place in locations throughout Iceland, the Republic of Ireland, and Northern Ireland from August to December 2020. The film is heavily influenced by Norse mythology.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “The Northman” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.