I agree with previous comment that this movie has many weak points, poor film quality, but, this IS NOT the main idea. It has been and remains until now my favorite movie of all what i saw since i first saw this movie when i was 12 years old. First of all, it is Excellent historical reconstruction, not like all these Hollywood attempts like 1950's "Vikings". These old times were not like pages from Edda, the life of people was rather simple and this movie, as it seems for me, reconstructs it most closely than one could make it. So it is REALISTIC, and not fantasy-style like many films about Vikings. And because i have passion for Viking age, i love the film so much. As if i transfer from my time and place to the times and places, "when there was no Norway and Russia, but there were lands and people, who would later call themselves Russians and Norwegians" -- the lands and the times i would prefer to the time and land i live now. I do not know how about international versions of the film, but in original Russian version all Norwegian speech is kept in Norsk so you can clearly hear native Scandinavian speech, which, i believe, is very beautiful language. Pity that too little people know about this movie and good DVD copy is hard to obtain. However, all this are my personal thoughts, maybe i am the only one to have such strong love for this film
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