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Product Information
Erik, a fine example of Vikinghood, one day questions the ethics of his livelihood, raping and pillaging, so he sets out for enlightenment, and the gods of Valhalla. His men become adept at creating chaos on this wacky adventure.
Product Identifiers
EAN5027035001760
eBay Product ID (ePID)3942613
Product Key Features
ActorImogen Stubbs, Anthony Sher, John Gordon Sinclair, Mickey Rooney, Tim Robbins, Terry Jones, Eartha Kitt, Samantha Bond, John Cleese
Film/TV TitleErik the Viking
DirectorTerry Jones
Release Year2000
FormatDVD
LanguageEnglish
FeaturesSpecial Edition\Programme Notes\The Making of Erik the Viking\Feature Reports\Selected Scene Index
GenreGeneral, Comedy
Run Time89 Mins
Additional Product Features
Certificate15
Number of Discs1
Additional InformationTim 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.
ReviewsNew York Times - ...[ERIK THE VIKING] has much of the invgorating upside-down Python sensibility....Robbins more than holds his comic own...