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4.6/10
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Kievan Rus, late 10th century. After the death of his father, the young Viking prince Vladimir of Novgorod is forced into exile across the frozen sea.Kievan Rus, late 10th century. After the death of his father, the young Viking prince Vladimir of Novgorod is forced into exile across the frozen sea.Kievan Rus, late 10th century. After the death of his father, the young Viking prince Vladimir of Novgorod is forced into exile across the frozen sea.
- Awards
- 3 wins & 6 nominations
Pavel Delong
- Anastas
- (as Pawel Delag)
Harald Thompson Rosenstrøm
- Eynar
- (as Harald Rosenstrøm)
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- TriviaThe Pecheneg language, an extinct Turkic language once spoken in Eastern Europe in the 7th-12th centuries, was "re-invented" for the movie.
- GoofsThe movie shows that Czar Vladimir I brought the Christianity to the people of the Rus. However Christianity already existed and was practiced before Vladimir's rule (during the years 978-1015), e.g. Princess Olga of Kiev (920-969), wife of Igor the Rurik, was one of the first Russian rulers who officially was a Christian.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Lost in Adaptation: Eragon (2016)
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I party can understand the low rating, it is a bit strange movie, and maybe partly inaccurate (I'm not an expert on Russian history; a Russian friend I asked wasn't very convinced about the whole Viking dominance thing depicted in the movie in that period of history, but anyway). I gave it 7 stars for something that I think needs mentioning: it is one of the very few movies out there to include Byzantium. Hollywood doesn't even know what that is. 'Historical' american movies know only: Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, and maybe some thing up until the fall of the Western part of the Roman Empire at the most. After that: the complete vacuum. Well, at least this movie shows a very historically rich period. I liked the scene where the Russians talk with the Romans regarding marriage arrangements, where the Roman envoy speaks Greek, as was the case back then (and they're correctly called Romans in the movie, thus avoiding the anachronism typical of almost all English-speaking historical movies). In summary, definite must see for those interested in Byzantium.
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- alvardecampos
- Mar 26, 2020
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Box office
- Budget
- RUR 1,250,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross worldwide
- $29,161,298
- Runtime2 hours 22 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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