Escape - Legacy of the Vikings
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Escape - Legacy of the Vikings |
| Original title | Fluctuation |
| Country of production | Norway |
| original language | Norwegian |
| Publishing year | 2012 |
| length | 76 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Roar Uthaug |
| production | Nordisk film |
| music | Magnus Beite |
| camera | John Christian Rosenlund |
| cut | Christian Siebenherz |
| occupation | |
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Escape - Legacy of the Vikings (original title: Flukt ) is a Norwegian feature film from 2012. Isabel Christine Andreasen and Ingrid Bolsø Berdal star in the film, directed by Roar Uthaug .
action
Norway in the 14th century: In the country ravaged by the plague , the family of the young Signe is killed by the gang of the leader Dagmar in front of them. Dagmar himself shoots Signe's brother with a crossbow . Signe is spared by Dagmar and kidnapped. In Dagmar's camp she meets her foster daughter Frigg. When she approaches the tied Signe, Frigg is punished. As a result, the two girls flee the camp; Dagmar and her followers pursue them through the Scandinavian countryside. On the run, Signe manages to take out two of five followers of Dagmar.
The girls find shelter with the hunter Trygve. This gives you shelter and food. He tells the girls of Dagmar's past: At the time of the plague epidemic, Dagmar was denounced as the witch who was supposed to have caused the epidemic in the region. The villagers performed the water test on the pregnant Dagmar and her young daughter . The girl drowned, but Dagmar escaped, but also lost her unborn child. Trygve also trains Signe in hunting and archery .
Dagmar and her remaining three companions track down the girls at Trygve and kill him; the girls flee again, but are caught on a cliff. While Frigg falls into Dagmar's clutches again, Signe throws himself off the cliff. She survived the fall and returned to Trygve's hut, burying him. With his weapons she returns to Dagmar's camp and kills their followers. Then she frees the tied Frigg. There is a fight between Signe and Dagmar, in the course of which Signe kills Dagmar with her crossbow.
background
The shooting took place in Sirdal in Norway.
Escape premiered on September 20, 2012 at the Slash Film Festival . It was shown in Norwegian cinemas on September 27, 2012. The film premiered in Germany as a DVD release on May 24, 2013.
Reviews
Bill Gibron from DVD Verdict compared the film with The Hunger Games, which started almost at the same time : "Just get all images of Katniss Everdeen and her kid killing contest out of your mind and enjoy this."
TV Spielfilm rated the film positively. The editors saw the film as "entertaining Girl Power -Mittelalteraction" and Berdals character a "nasty Oberunholdin" in a "crisp B-movie ".
Web links
- Escape - legacy of the Vikings in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Escape - legacy of the Vikings at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thea Steen: Jeg jumped round i skogen og ristern på hodet (Norwegian) . In: Dagbladet , September 28, 2012. Retrieved July 24, 2015.
- ↑ Christoph Huber: Horror: Heart and Blood for the Fantastic Film (German) . In: Die Presse , September 19, 2012. Accessed July 24, 2015.
- ↑ Jon Selas: Brutal fluctuations . In: Verdens Gang , September 27, 2012. Retrieved July 24, 2015.
- ↑ Bill Gibron: Escape (Blu-ray) . In: DVD Verdict . May 13, 2013. Archived from the original on July 24, 2015. Retrieved on July 24, 2015.
- ↑ TV Spielfilm, issue 4/2019, page 135