Netflix quietly adds ‘masterpiece’ Viking drama starring Hollywood legends
It was directed by Robert Eggers!
An ‘intense and immersive’ period drama following Vikings has quietly been added to Netflix.
Hitting screens in 2022, The Northman was directed by Robert Eggers (The Witch, The Lighthouse, Nosferatu).
It was based on the legend of Amleth from Gesta Danorum by Saxo Grammaticus and followed a Viking prince who ‘sets out on a quest to avenge the murder of his father at the hands of his uncle’.
Alexander Skarsgård played Amleth, while Nicole Kidman played his mother Queen Gudrún and Claes Bang was his uncle Fjölnir the Brotherless.
The movie also starred Anya Taylor-Joy, Ethan Hawke, Björk, and Willem Dafoe.
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In its review, iNews wrote: ‘Robert Eggers’s rousing new film has all the ingredients you’d anticipate in any self-respecting Nordic epic.’
The Northman starred Alexander Skarsgard as he avenges his father’s murder (Picture:Aidan Monaghan/ Focus Features via AP)
