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Viking (film)
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Content: The old warrior Sveneld ( Maksim Sukhanov) convinces Vladimir to assemble a force of Viking mercenaries led by a Swedish chieftain ( Joakim Nätterqvist ), hoping to reconquer Kiev from Yaropolk. Cast
Danila Kozlovsky as Vladimir the Great
Aleksandr Ustyugov as Yaropolk I of Kiev
Kirill Pletnyov as Oleg of Drelinia
Andrey Smolyakov as Rogvolod
Aleksandra Bortich as Rogneda, princess of Polotsk, wife of Vladimir the Great
Svetlana Khodchenkova as Irina, a greek, wife of Yaropolk I Sviatoslavich
Maksim Sukhanov as Sveneld, voivode of the Grand Duke Sviatoslav Igorevich
Rostislav Bershauer as Blud, voivode and boyar of Kiev
Nikolay Kozak as Lyut, the prince of Yaropolk's retinue
Igor Petrenko as Varyazhko, the prince of Yaropolk's retinue
Vladimir Epifantsev as Theodore, the prince of Yaropolk's retinue
Ivan Shmakov as John, Theodore's son (boy in Kiev)
Pawel Delag as Anastas
Aleksey Demidov as Samocha
Aleksandr Lobanov as Putyata
John DeSantis as Berserk
Joakim Nätterqvist as Khevding
Harald Rosenstrøm as Einar
Aleksandr Armer as Ulvar
Oleg Dobrovan as Valgard
Ziedonis Lochmelis as Torvald
Daniil Soldatov, Vilen Babichev and Oleg Sizov as viking chieftains
Production
Development
The film was produced by Konstantin Ernst and Anatoly Maksimov, best known for the Russian urban fantasy / supernatural thrillers Night Watch and Day Watch. A few scenes were filmed in 2013 to secure funding, a common way to secure finances for large movie productions in Russia. Most of the production was done in March–July 2015. The budget was on par with the Russian WWII epic Stalingrad, 1,250 million rubles (approximately USD$20 million). The main historical consultants of the film were the historian and archaeologist Vladimir Petrukhin and the linguist Fyodor Uspenskiy. The costume designer traveled to several cities and countries, buying fabric and studying frescoes and museum in China, India, Helsinki, Riga, Novgorod, Stockholm, and Minsk. The Pecheneg language, an extinct Turkic language once spoken in Eastern Europe (in what today is most of Ukraine, parts of southern Russia, Moldova, and Hungary) in the 7th–12th centuries, was "re-invented" for the movie. Casting
The cast is mostly Russian; however the film does features Swedish actor Joakim Nätterqvist, Canada's John DeSantis and Belarusian actress Aleksandra Bortich .