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Release Date:
27 August 1999 (USA)
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Tagline:
Fear reigns. more
Plot:
In AD 922, an important emissary who is banished from his homeland. The nomadic outcast comes across...
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2 wins
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1 nomination
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Looks Terrific!!!
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Antonio Banderas | ... | Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan | |
| Vladimir Kulich | ... | Buliwyf | |
| Dennis Storhøi | ... | Herger - Joyous (as Dennis Storhoi) | |
| Daniel Southern | ... | Edgtho - Silent | |
| Neil Maffin | ... | Roneth | |
| John DeSantis | ... | Ragnar - Dour (as John Desantis) | |
| Clive Russell | ... | Helfdane - Fat | |
| Mischa Hausserman | ... | Rethel - Archer | |
| Oliver Sveinall | ... | Haltaf - Boy | |
| Asbjørn 'Bear' Riis | ... | Halga - Wise (as Asbjorn Riis) | |
| Richard Bremmer | ... | Skeld - Superstitious | |
| Tony Curran | ... | Weath - Musician | |
| Albie Woodington | ... | Hyglak - Quarrelsome | |
| Omar Sharif | ... | Melchisidek | |
| Erick Avari | ... | Caravan Leader (as Eric Avari) |
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Also Known As:
Eaters of the Dead (USA) (working title)
The Thirteenth Warrior
The Vikings (USA) (working title)
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The Thirteenth Warrior
The Vikings (USA) (working title)
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MPAA:
Rated R for bloody battles and carnage.
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Runtime:
102 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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2.35 : 1 more
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Certification:
Malaysia:18SG |
Germany:12 |
USA:R (No. 36499) |
Netherlands:16 |
Argentina:13 |
Australia:MA |
Canada:13+ (Quebec) |
Canada:14A (Alberta/Manitoba) |
Canada:18A (British Columbia) |
Canada:18 (Nova Scotia) |
Canada:AA (Ontario) |
Chile:14 |
Finland:K-16 |
France:U |
Hong Kong:IIB |
Iceland:16 |
Ireland:18 |
New Zealand:R16 |
Norway:15 |
Peru:14 |
Portugal:M/12 |
Singapore:NC-16 |
South Korea:18 |
Spain:13 |
Sweden:15 |
UK:15 |
Philippines:PG-13 |
Brazil:14
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Loosely based on the Anglo-Saxon epic poem, "Beowulf", whose author is unknown.
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Goofs:
Incorrectly regarded as goofs: While most warriors discarded their original weapons to swim under the cliffs, they acquired new ones: Buliwyf is given a sword by the king, Herger uses an unfamiliar halberd, and Edgtho's knives are borrowed. Thus, the last fight is not wrong.
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Quotes:
[after the battle is over, Ahmed sleeps with Olga]
Herger the Joyous: Did she finish you off or bring you back to life?
Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan: A gentleman doesn't discuss such things.
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Herger the Joyous: Did she finish you off or bring you back to life?
Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan: A gentleman doesn't discuss such things.
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Movie Connections:
Featured in "Troldspejlet: (#23.2)" (2000)
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Will there ever be an extended cut, special edition and/or DVD released containing the original 127 min. version directed by John McTiernan?more
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Sword epics with Vikings will always be a favourite for me.
The swish of one of those huge broad swords and the metallic ring as they slice through a neck rank right up there with the cinematic, machinic, muted roar of spaceships and the false squeal of tires on dirt roads.
Leif Ericson in The Tales Of The Vikings 1960's T.V. series helped fill my young world. I suppose that imagining that I was Nordic and lopping off English heads was preferable to being a cowboy and picking on the hapless Red Indians.
The likes of Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Ernest Borgnine, Frank Thring and Janet Leigh in movies like The Vikings (1958) made for pretty good childhood fantasies and I reckon that sometimes it's O.K. not to grow up.
In The 13th Warrior Jose Antonio Dominguez Banderas stars as Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan. Other characters include Herger The Joyous, Buliwyf (perhaps he was the red headed one with the Scottish accent), Melchisidek (Omar Sharif in a cameo) and Queen Weilew who was played by the less glamourously named Diane Venora.
Don't worry too much about her though. She's just there to pat Ibn's brow, and other things belonging to Ibn, between battles.
But those names do have a certain broad sword ring to them don't they.
The idea is that Arab poet Ibn (Banderas) has been lusting after the wrong woman in Court and has been sent off as some sort of diplomat to the Vikings who have a spot of bother. A village is being besieged by mad demons. 13 warriors must go and Banderas must help out. And so the carnage begins. This I repeat is the only reason for the movie.
The romantic bits are only by play, bloody foreplay for the real thing.
Big, sweaty, longhaired, fellows with names that these days would end in son do heroic battle with very nasty adversaries who delight in taking the heads of their victim's home with them as keepsakes.
The plot is that simple. Michael Crichton's novel upon which the film was supposedly based (it's now over 25 years old) was I'd imagine thrown onto a fat splattered campfire early in the production and the blood letting began. And Crichton is a co-writer of the film.
The 13The Warrior was directed by John McTiernan who's credits include Predator, The Hunt For Red October, The Thomas Crown Affair and Die Hard and it was filmed by Peter Menzies Jr. I mention this because this film looks superb.
This cross between The Last Of The Mohecans, The Conan films and Indiana Jones won't excite your thinking processes but lovers of the art of action cinematography are in for a treat.