After fifteen years in prison, a former bank robber is released with one problem: the stolen money was buried by his traumatized brother, who no longer remembers where. The Last Viking is a darkly comic crime film about brotherhood, memory, and identity, perfectly blending dry humor with moments of violence and tenderness.
Genre: drama, comedy, crime
Language: Danish , subtitles: English
Length: 1 hr 56 mins (2025)
After serving a fifteen-year prison sentence, Anker is released from jail with one goal: recover the loot from a long-ago bank robbery. There’s just one problem. The money was buried by his brother Manfred, and Manfred no longer remembers anything.
Suffering from a severe mental disorder, Manfred constantly slips between identities. One moment he believes he is a Viking; the next, he is convinced he’s the reincarnation of John Lennon. As a ruthless rival closes in, the brothers embark on a race against time to recover the money — and, along the way, rediscover themselves.
In this crazy and heartwarming black comedy by director Anders Thomas Jensen (starring once again a stunning Mads Mikkelsen as Manfred, among others), slapstick, violence, and tragedy collide, but always with a touch of absurdity and big questions about who we are.
Laughter, violence and ABBA: quite the perfect combination.
Awards
The Last Viking had its world premiere out of competition at the Venice International Film Festival (2025), and at Imagine Fantastic Film Festival 2025 it won both the Méliès d’Argent (Best European Fantastic Feature) and the Silver Scream Audience Award.
Reviews
“A perceptive take on men’s mental health… a delightful mix of genre, meta-texuality, and positive affirmation masked as a Beatles song.” The Film Stage
“‘The Last Viking’ sports a cockeyed streak a mile wild, trafficking in the best kind of straight-faced absurdism—wry, but simultaneously genuine and sincere.” RogerEbert
“Few directors would be able to juggle genres and navigate shifts in tone as fluidly as Jensen does here. On paper none of it should work... but this unlikely film is consistently entertaining, weird and ultimately touching.” The Hollywood Reporter
Ticket information
This film will be shown at Filmhuis De Zwarte Doos.
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The Studium Generale film program is created in collaboration with the Student Film Committee and Natlab.