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Kievan Rus, late 10th century. After the death of his father, Svyatoslav I, ruler of Kievan Rus, the young Viking prince Vladimir of Novgorod (<a href=">Danila Kozlovsky) is forced into exile across the frozen sea to escape his treacherous half-brother Yaropolk (<a href=">Aleksandr Ustyugov), who has murdered his other brother Oleg (<a href=">Kirill Pletnyov) and conquered the Viking territory of Kievan Rus. The old warrior Sveneld (<a href=">Maksim Sukhanov) convinces Vladimir to assemble a Varangian armada, hoping to reconquer Novgorod from Yaropolk and ultimately face the mighty Byzantine forces.
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.
This film is about illegitimate son&#39;s long journey to success. <br/><br/>Vladimir was the first one kill his brothers (was the first one to do so in known Russian history) and simultaneously marry multiple women while having harem full of virgins. This was before, during and after his new-found Christian faith. Was there something good in him? Yeah. He &quot;loved his mother&quot; who was a kind of slave to his grandmother Olga.<br/><br/>Thanks to so-called &quot;peacefull conversion to Christianity&quot; it took Vladimir Lenin just a minute to say &quot;f@ck it&quot; 1000 years after the events - and so-called religious Russia ditched it without much regret. Good job, both Vladimirs! Another reason for me to be ashamed of my compatriots - they care more about Vladimir&#39;s myth as a saint than about the lesson Russians should&#39;ve learned from it. You cannot force love in any translation of this word from Greek: love for a woman (eros), brother (philia), mother (storge) or God (agape). Vladimir only loved his mother (according to his own words in the beginning, not his actions).<br/><br/>Modern Russian domestic vikings in the 90s have killed and robbed their own people to become &quot;princes&quot;, just like Vladimir did. And now they&#39;re sponsoring Russian Orthodox Church because of her all-forgiving &quot;you&#39;re OK, but give us money&quot; motto. Funny that history repeats itself this way.<br/><br/>This movie is so bad it&#39;s actually good.
As a sympathetic but apostate former Christian, I am intrigued by a specific sub-genre: dramatizations of the historical adoption of monotheism by pagan cultures. My guard does go up if the film is of the solemn hagiograhy variety, presenting the change as a solemn inevitability (ala most&quot;life of Muhammed&quot; stories.)<br/><br/>To my mind, this film &quot;Viking&quot; smuggles a respectable monotheism epic into audiences&#39; attention by disguising it as a visceral Game of Thrones style feud-fest. However, it nonetheless managed to retain my goodwill by packaging it with entertaining spectacles, mostly grounded in dramatically satisfying character motivations and arcs driving the conflict. In the process it averted hagiography <br/><br/>(At least until the end when an aftertaste of sanctity seems to hover over the film. SPOILER: the protagonist turns out to become a Russian Orthodox saint.)<br/><br/>However, that whiff may well be my own prejudice showing. To my less- encumbered cineaste&#39;s eye, the contrast between the smoky, muddy, bloody world of the Rus for most of the film, and the golden sunlit skies and mosaic-laden Christian universe that appears progressively more towards the climax, makes the religion appear impressively enticing, even to this apostate. It&#39;s an uplifting transition, one that ultimately reduces to a fake-out the cynical quote from Mao which appeared in the film&#39;s opening. <br/><br/>I did find the film had some shortfalls, mostly common to other historical epics.<br/><br/>It can be hard to distinguish one bearded or armoured character from another, both spear-carriers and variously expendable secondary characters, either in repose or in a rain- curtailed action scenes.<br/><br/>The film is overlong, and displays intermittent awkward compromises between historical veracity and dramatic necessities.<br/><br/>However, on balance, it still skillfully held my attention throughout; showcased some vivid cinematography and speed- ramped action; and generated moderate star-wattage from a couple charismatic performances.

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