Tonight on Netflix: Viking fans will love this intense action film

In May 2022, Robert Eggers, director of the acclaim The Witch and the recent Nosfetatu, offered us a historic feature of a fabulous intensity: The Northman. The story follows the young Prince Amleth; The latter has just become a man when his father is brutally murdered by his uncle who then seizes the boy's mother.

The revenge of a viking

Amleth flees her island kingdom by boat, swearing to take revenge. Two decades later, Amleth became a Berserkr, a Viking warrior capable of entering a bestial fury, who plunders and sets fire, with his brothers Berserkir, Slavic villages until a guess reminds him of his vow to avenge his father, to rescue his mother and to kill his uncle.

He then embarked on a boat for Iceland and entered, with the help of Olga, a young Slavic taken as a slave, on his uncle's farm, also by making himself pass for a slave, with the intention of perpetuating his revenge.

This captivating film, with absolutely sublime images, is brilliantly worn by a 5-star cast: Alexander Skarsgård, Nicole Kidman, Claes Bang, Anya Taylor-Joy, Willem Dafoe, Ethan Hawke and Björk.

Robert Eggers became interested in Vikings late, during a trip to Iceland, where he became aware of the richness of this civilization. But it is his meeting with Alexander Skarsgård, passionate about the subject and in search of a director to make a film on this people, that The Northman has materialized.

The Vikings ultimate film

“I knew that I would have to make the film of Vikings par excellence, the one who would be authoritative. With Sjón, a brilliant Icelandic novelist and poet, we embarked on the production of a film of Vikings of unrivaled historical fidelity and accuracy”said the 41 -year -old American filmmaker.

Indeed, after the charisma of Ragnar in the Vikings series, the power of Amleth will appeal to the fans of the show, also available on Netflix. Alexander Skarsgård transformed his body with the help of the Swedish nutritionist and coach Magnus Lygdback, with whom he had already worked on Tarzan. For The Northman, he had to develop a voluminous and threatening muscles.

“We wanted Alex to be thicker, less dry than Tarzanand with larger Amleth shoulders is half-loup, half-courses, and we wanted Alex to be able to move flexibly when he handles the ax and the sword, but that he also has an imposing size and volume “underlined Robert Eggers.