Valhalla Rising (film)

Valhalla Rising
A bearded tattooed man against a foggy mountainous background
Theatrical release poster
Directed byNicolas Winding Refn
Written by
  • Nicolas Winding Refn
  • Roy Jacobsen
  • Mike Arcidi
Produced by
  • Johnny Andersen
  • Bo Ehrhardt
  • Henrik Danstrup
Starring
CinematographyMorten Søborg
Edited byMat Newman
Music by
Production
company
Nimbus Film Productions
Distributed byScanbox Entertainment
Release dates
  • 4 September 2009 (2009-09-04) (Venice)
  • 31 March 2010 (2010-03-31) (Denmark)
Running time
92 minutes[1]
CountryDenmark
LanguageEnglish
Budget$5.7 million[2]
Box office$731,613[2]

Valhalla Rising is a 2009 English-language Danish period adventure film[3] 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"[4] 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 an unknown land where they are assailed by unseen forces and dark visions.

Shot entirely in Scotland,[5] the title is derived from the combination of Kenneth Anger's films Scorpio Rising and Lucifer Rising with a Viking theme.[6] While the film garnered generally positive reviews, it only made back about $731,613 of its $5.7 million production cost.[2]

  1. ^ "Valhalla Rising (15)". British Board of Film Classification. 1 April 2010. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
  2. ^ a b c "Valhalla Rising (2010) - Financial Information". The Numbers.
  3. ^ "Valhalla Rising (2009) – Nicolas Winding Refn | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related". AllMovie. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
  4. ^ According to Quentin Dispas Questions de mythologie nordique : Valhalla Rising in the magazine Projections.
  5. ^ Harkness, Alistair (1 May 2010). "Film Review: Valhalla Rising". The Scotsman. Edinburgh.
  6. ^ Romain Le Vern, "Interview Nicolas Winding Refn (Valhalla Rising – Le guerrier silencieux)," MYTF1News, 6 March 2010. (Refn: "Rien que pour le titre, on peut être tenté d'y voir une résonance. Kenneth Anger a réalisé Scorpio Rising et Lucifer Rising dans les années 70. Je propose Valhalla Rising en 2010.")

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