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REDBAD

By Roel REINÉ

EPIC PICTURES GROUP - as DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline, USA

Action/Adventure - Completed 2018

In the year of 754 AD, during a time of epic battles and bloodshed, the legend of the pagan warrior king, REDBAD, is born, but so is a new weapon against his people: Christianity. Redbad must ultimately unite a Viking army powerful enough to defeat the seemingly invincible Franks

- Year of production
- 2018
- Genres
- Action/Adventure, Drama, Historical
- Countries
- NETHERLANDS
- Languages
- DUTCH, ENGLISH
- Duration
- 160 mn
- Director(s)
- Roel REINÉ
- Writer(s)
- Alex VAN GALEN
- Cast
- Jonathan BANKS, Huub STAPEL, Lisa SMIT
- Producer(s)
- Klaas DE JONG
- Synopsis
- Pagan warrior king, Redbad, clashes with his father when his girlfriend Fenne is chosen to be sacrificed to the gods. During the sacrificial ritual, the Franks attack Redbad and his army and lose their town, Dorestad. Redbad’s uncle Eibert makes a swift bid for power and blames Redbad for their defeat and his father’s death. Tied up on a raft, Redbad is pushed out to sea to die. But Redbad manages to survive the journey and washes up on Viking shores. There, he learns the value of his own culture. He is slowly accepted into the clan, and after fighting with the Vikings against a rival clan of Norsemen, he marries King Wiglek’s daughter. When he and his wife return to Dorestad, he discovers that his sister has been married off to the son of Frankish King Pepin. At a fair, he sees Willibrord the priest force his sister to convert and humiliate her in public. He swears he will set her free. He cannot do this alone, but his uncle and nephew, who are now in power, must unite an army powerful enough to defeat the seemingly invincible Franks.