Valhalla Rising
■ Basic Data
| Item | Content |
|---|---|
| Year | 2009 |
| Country | Denmark, United Kingdom |
| Director | Nicolas Winding Refn |
| Cast | Mads Mikkelsen, Maarten Stevenson, Alexander Morton, Ewan Stewart, Gary Lewis, Jamie Sives |
| Genre | Historical adventure |
■ Title Language Table
| Language | Text | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| English | Valhalla Rising | – |
| Español | Valhalla Rising | – |
| Français | Le Guerrier silencieux | Le Guerrier silencieux |
| Deutsch | Walhalla Rising | Walhalla Rising |
| Português | Valhalla Rising | – |
| Italiano | Valhalla Rising | – |
| Русский | Вальгалла: Сага о викинге | Valgalla: Saga o vikinge |
| 中文（简体） | 维京英灵殿 | – |
| 中文（繁體） | 維京英靈殿 | – |
| 한국어 | 발할라 라이징 | Balhalla Raijing |
| ไทย | Valhalla Rising | – |
| Tiếng Việt | Valhalla Rising | – |
| Bahasa Indonesia | Valhalla Rising | – |
| 日本語 | ヴァルハラ・ライジング | Varuhara Raijingu |
■ One-Line Definition
👉 A work that depicts a structure in which violent liberation and religious conquest collide within a silent passage toward sacrificial extinction.
■ Synopsis
A mute warrior escapes captivity and joins Christian crusaders on a voyage that becomes a descent into unknown land, faith, violence, and death.
■ RECIPE Tags
#ViolentLiberation #ReligiousConquest #SacrificialJourney #MythicSilence #DeathPassage
■ Primary Axis
- Entry: Body Freed Through Violence
Reason: Liberation begins not as moral awakening but as the rupture of captivity through primal force.
Related Film: Aguirre, the Wrath of God - Middle: Faith as Conquest Logic
Reason: The journey converts religious certainty into territorial expansion, fear, and self-destruction.
Related Film: The Mission - Core: Silence Before Sacrifice
Reason: The protagonist’s path ends not in victory but in a near-ritual surrender to a larger fatal order.
Related Film: The Last Temptation of Christ
■ Secondary Axes
- Unknown Land as Spiritual Judgment: The external frontier becomes the space where belief, violence, and identity collapse.
Related Film: Apocalypse Now - Warrior as Mythic Vessel: The fighter functions less as a psychological individual than as an embodied passage through violence and death.
Related Film: The Northman
■ Person
- Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
- Cast: Mads Mikkelsen, Maarten Stevenson, Alexander Morton, Ewan Stewart, Gary Lewis, Jamie Sives
■ Structural Tags
#DeathPassage #FaithCollision #MythicVessel
■ Attribute Tags
#Denmark #UnitedKingdom #2009Film #HistoricalAdventure
