2016 · history · action · drama
Viking
Directed by Andrey Kravchuk2h 13m2016
The early Middle Ages. A time of heavy swords and dark blood law. The ruling clan is in discord. The guilt for the accidental death of the brother has fallen on the Grand Duke. According to the law, revenge must be taken by the younger brother, a bastard. For the refusal to kill, he has to pay with eve- rything he had, because “for peace you need more swords than for a war”...
Our read: Viking (2016) reads as a heavy, kinetic, grounded history · action · drama entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme history / action, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
- cold
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