Northmen - A Viking Saga

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Movie
German title Northmen - A Viking Saga
Original title Northmen - A Viking Saga
Country of production Switzerland ,
Germany ,
South Africa
original language English
Publishing year 2014
length 97 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
JMK 14
Rod
Director Claudio Fäh
script Bastian Zach ,
Matthias Bauer
music Marcus Trumpp
camera Lorenzo Senatore
cut Adam right
occupation
synchronization

Northmen - A Viking Saga is a Swiss - German - South African feature film of director Claudio Fäh from the year 2014 .

action

A group of Vikings led by Asbjörn is stranded on the Scottish coast after their ship sank in a storm. There they are attacked by soldiers who accompany the king's daughter Inghean to her wedding. The Vikings defeat the soldiers and take Inghean with them, hoping to get a ransom for them. On the way they meet a monk who gives them help and shelter. Meanwhile, Inghean's father, King Dunchaid, has hired a mercenary force to pursue the Vikings in order to free his daughter.

When the mercenaries attack the tower where the monk and the Vikings are, the group is able to escape through a tunnel. The monk offers the Vikings to show them the way to the Viking settlement of Danelag , where they would be safe. On the way they are attacked several times by the mercenaries, but can ultimately defeat them. They are overtaken by King Dunchaid and his troops on a cliff . Asbjörn jumps into the water and is able to fetch a boat from a cave. Then the other Vikings, the monk and Inghean, who has decided to stay with the Vikings, also jump into the water. Together the group rows towards Danelag.

background

Northmen - A Viking Saga was filmed in Germany and South Africa. After the premiere on September 27, 2014 at the Zurich Film Festival , the film was released in cinemas on October 23, 2014 in Germany, Austria and the German-speaking part of Switzerland .

synchronization

Northmen - A Viking Saga was dubbed by TV + Synchron Berlin GmbH . The dialogue director was Andreas Pollak , who also wrote the dialogue book .

actor German speaker role
Ed Skrein Michael Deffert Horr
Charlie Murphy Manja Doering Inghean
Ryan Kwanten Nicolas Boell Conall
Tom Hopper Marco Kroeger Asbjorn
Ken Duken Ken Duken Thorald
Leo Gregory Roman Kretschmer Jorund
Anatole Taubman Anatole Taubman Bovarr
Richard Lothian Beat Marti Haldor
Danny Keogh Roland Hemmo King Dunchaid
Johan Hegg Karl Schulz Valli
Darrell D'Silva Axel Lutter Gunnar
David James Erich Rauker Gang leader
Mark Strepan Vanya Gerick Grim
Joe Vaz Hans Hohlbein Murdill

Reviews

Filmstarts judged Northmen - A Viking Saga to be a "charming action film that spreads long fun with its solid, hand-made fighting and hunting scenes". For Christina Rietz from Spiegel Online , the film is a “complete failure”, among other things she criticizes the bad action and predictable dialogues.

In the features section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the film is compared with other works in the genre that revolved around “nobility and hordes” and would raise fundamental civilizational questions: the “Northmen” stand for “a world of disintegration in which there is no longer a world policeman able to keep the warlords in check, in which failing states rub each other bloodily [...] "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate from the FSK (PDF; 34 kB), accessed on January 7, 2016.
  2. ↑ Age rating for Northmen - A Viking Saga . Youth Media Commission , accessed on January 7, 2016 .
  3. ↑ a b c Northmen - A Viking Saga. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on January 7, 2016 .
  4. Jump up ↑ Northmen - A Viking Saga. In: film starts . Retrieved January 7, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Christina Rietz: Action film "Northmen - A Viking Saga": To Walhalla! (And please don't come back). In: Spiegel Online . October 22, 2014, accessed January 7, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Bert Rebhandl: Movie "Northmen": Why we love the barbarians. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . October 23, 2014, accessed August 13, 2017 .