Erik the Viking
1989 · Movie · 106 min. · United Kingdom
Tim Robbins stars as Erik the Viking, a thoughtful man in a violent time who does not enjoy killing and raping like the rest of his people. When he accidentally kills a woman while defending her, he reevaluates his life and goes off in search of the Horn Resounding, which has the power to bring him to his true home--and end the Age of Ragnarok, bringing peace to the kingdom. To get there he has to lead a pathetic group of seasick sailors through the Gates of the World and into sunlight, on their way to Valhalla. But all threatens to come undone when the local blacksmith plots to sabotage the journey to protect his lucrative weapons business. The film includes wonderfully unexpected turns from Mickey Rooney and Eartha Kitt and an especially funny performance by John Cleese as a torturing warlord who enjoys having men killed in myriad creative ways. The film is more similar in tone to Terry Gilliam's JABBERWOCKY than to any of the Monty Python farces.
Direction Terry Jones
Cast Tim Robbins · Mickey Rooney · John Cleese · Terry Jones · Eartha Kitt · Imogen Stubbs · Tsutomu Sekine · Freddie Jones · John Gordon Sinclair · Antony Sher · Gary Cady · Charles McKeown · Tim McInnerny · Richard Ridings · Samantha Bond · Danny Schiller · Jim Broadbent · Jim Carter · Jay Simpson · John Scott Martin · Sian Thomas · Sarah Crowden · Matyelok Gibbs · Tilly Vosburgh · Bernard Padden · Bernard Latham · Julia McCarthy · Allan Surtees · Sandra Voe
Soundtrack Neil Innes
Screenplay Terry Jones
Cinematography Ian Wilson
Original title Erik the Viking
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