Film

Normannerne

1976 · Drama

IMDb

1.2

With "The Normans," painters Paul Gernes and Per Kirkeby wanted to make a film about the Viking Age, but not a traditional fiction film set in that period. Instead, the film has a contemporary setting, in which a guide shows various historical sites and tries to bring the past to life, even though she has only one interested listener. Within this framework, episodes from Danish mythology are brought to life: King Skjold, Rolf Krake, Regnar Lodbrog, the Battle of Svold, etc. The film mainly follows the account in Saxo's chronicle, but also dramatizes a story by the Arab author Ibn Fadlan. He described the cremation of a Viking chieftain in Russia around the year 900, where, among other things, a slave woman was sacrificed after ritual intercourse. The film is based on a number of historical and archaeological studies. The loose form is intended to emphasize how fragmentary our knowledge of the Viking Age actually is.

Lisbet Dahl

Museumsguide

Henning Jensen

Interesseret tilhører

Preben Lerdorff Rye

Regnar Lodbrog

Dick Kaysø

Rolf Krake

Lene Tiemroth

Trælkvinde, der ofres

Birgit Brüel

Offerpræstinde

Jens Brenaa

Lise Kamp Dahlerup

Orla Rasch

• Paul GernesDirector · Writer
• Per KirkebyDirector · Writer
• Saxo GrammaticusWriter

Release date

April 1, 1976

Status

Released

Original language

Danish

Rated

15

Genres

Drama