"Highlander" The Valkyrie (1997)

Director:

Richard Martin

Writers:

Gregory Widen (character) and
James Thorpe (writer)

TV Series:

"Highlander" (1992)

Original Air Date:

27 January 1997 (Season 5, Episode 11)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Mystery | Sci-Fi

Plot:

In flashback, Duncan and Immortal Ingrid tackle the Nazis in 1935 Germany. In modern day, Ingrid has assassinated a Russian politician and Duncan wants to stop her from killing her next target, an American white-power advocate. |

Plot Keywords:

Flashback | 1930s | 1940s | Stauffenberg Bomb Plot | Plot To Kill Hitler

Cast

Dean Balkwill	...	German Dissident
Jim Byrnes	...	Joe Dawson
Fulvio Cecere	...	Alan Wilkinson
Martin Evans	...	Colonel Stauffenburg
Raoul Ganeev	...	Guard
L. Harvey Gold	...	Igor Stefanovich
Peter Hanlon	...	Karl Brandt
Noah Heney	...	Brownshirt #1
Patrick Keating	...	Adolph Hitler
James Leard	...	Detective Robert Frayne (as Jim Leard)
Adrian Paul	...	Duncan 'Mac / Highlander' MacLeod
Jan Tríska	...	Nicolae Breslaw
Musetta Vander	...	Ingrid Henning
Peter Wingfield	...	Adam Pierson / Methos

Directed by
Richard Martin

Writing credits
Gregory Widen		(character)
James Thorpe		writer

Produced by
Christian Charret	....	executive producer
Nicolas Clermont	....	co-executive producer
Peter S. Davis	....	executive producer
Marla Ginsburg	....	executive producer
Ken Gord	....	producer
Denis Leroy	....	executive producer
William N. Panzer	....	executive producer
David Tynan	....	coordinating producer

Original Music by
Roger Bellon

Cinematography by
Paul Mitchnick		(director of photography)

Film Editing by
David M. Richardson

Casting by
Wendy O'Brien		(as Wendy O'Brien Livingstone)

Production Design by
Rex Raglan

Art Direction by
Richard Cook

Set Decoration by
François Milly

Costume Design by
Lyn Kelly

Makeup Department
Forest Sala	....	hair stylist
Carolyn Stewart	....	makeup artist
Jill Winston	....	hair stylist

Production Management
Tracy Hillman	....	post-production supervisor
Jean-Baptiste Leclère	....	unit production manager
Charles Lyall	....	production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Shirley-Anne Parsons	....	first assistant director
Gary Blair Smith	....	second assistant director

Art Department
Don Anderson	....	assistant property master
Don Buchanan	....	property master
Jim Davie	....	construction coordinator
Michael Love	....	on-set dresser
Laurent Saimond	....	property master
Ricardo Spinacé	....	paint coordinator

Sound Department
Jean Casanova	....	boom operator
Steve Feindell	....	sound re-recording mixer
Tony Gronick	....	sound supervisor
Jim Harrington	....	foley artist
Michael Keeping	....	foley artist
Vince Renaud	....	sound re-recording mixer
Tim Richardson	....	sound mixer
Bernard Rochut	....	sound mixer
Michael Thomas	....	sound re-recording mixer (as Mike Thomas)

Special Effects by
Darren Marcoux	....	special effects

Stunts
Ernie Jackson	....	stunt coordinator

Camera and Electrical Department
David Gray	....	still photographer
Harvey LaRocque	....	camera operator
Owen Taylor	....	gaffer
Jim Van Dijk	....	camera operator
Jim Van Dijk	....	steadicam operator
John Westerlaken	....	key grip

Casting Department
Fern Champion	....	casting: USA
Mark Paladini	....	casting: USA
Marie Tate	....	extras casting

Editorial Department
Sylvia Jang	....	post-production coordinator
Doug Oke	....	assistant editor
Elvis Sahakian	....	color timer
Elvis Sahakian	....	mastering editor

Music Department
Hal Beckett	....	music editor

Transportation Department
Glenn J. Harrison-Jones	....	transportation captain
Ian 'Moss' Urquhart	....	transportation coordinator

Other crew
Guy Collins	....	executive financial consultant
Niki Cook	....	assistant: Ms. Ginsburg
Sandra Gould	....	production accountant
Gordon Hardwick	....	location manager
Sheryl Hardy	....	executive financial consultant
Gillian Horvath	....	associate creative consultant
Bernard Lamy	....	supervising production auditor
Steven Maier	....	executive financial consultant
F. Braun McAsh	....	sword master
Cindy Mjolsness	....	assistant: Mr. Gord
Donald Paonessa	....	creative consultant post-production
Holly Redford	....	production coordinator
Donna Rediér Linsk	....	legal affairs
Agnès Schmouker	....	coordinator: gaumont television
David Tynan	....	executive script consultant

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Scot Reins

Produced by
Nathalie Civrais-Velarde	....	line producer (seasons 1 and 2)
Lanko Miyazaki	....	supervising producer

Film Editing by
Charles Robichaud		(7 episodes)

Casting by
Mark Tillman

Makeup Department
Sharon Markell	....	hair stylist
Robert A. Pandini	....	hair stylist
Debra Regnier	....	assistant makeup artist
Krista Young	....	makeup artist

Production Management
Jérôme Servant	....	assistant unit manager
Antoine Vierny	....	assistant production manager
Antoine Vierny	....	assistant unit manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Todd Baker-McGarva	....	third assistant director
Vince Coates	....	third assistant director
Dominique Combe	....	first assistant director
Christine Derek	....	trainee assistant director
Frédéric-Guillaume Lefebvre	....	second assistant director (1995)
William Pruss	....	second assistant director (1995-1997)

Art Department
Lubor Cencak	....	scenic painter
Clive Edwards	....	on-set dresser (season 1)
James Purvis	....	set dresser
Ross Walshe	....	scenic carpenter
Rick Willoughby	....	carpenter

Sound Department
Jean Casanova	....	boom operator (1992-1997)
Stephen Cheung	....	adr recordist
Stephen Cheung	....	dialogue editor
Jim Lacamel	....	sound assistant
Jon Lavender	....	sound assistant (1996)
Derek Marcil	....	adr mixer
Richard Mercado	....	sound mixer
Roger Morris	....	adr mixer
Bernard Rochut	....	sound mixer (1992-1997)
David Tripeau	....	sound recordist (1998)
David Tripeau	....	sound recordist: foreign language versions (1996-1998)

Visual Effects by
Tom Archer	....	digital compositing artist
Ken Hayward	....	digital compositing artist
Rosano Lepri	....	digital compositing artist
Stephen Pepper	....	digital compositing artist
Bruce Woloshyn	....	digital compositing artist

Stunts
Lauro Chartrand	....	stunts
Duane Dickinson	....	stunts
Delaina-Lu Gamblin	....	stunt double
Dave Hospes	....	stunts
David Jacox	....	stunts
Monty Jordan	....	assistant stunt coordinator
Scott Nicholson	....	stunt fighter
Jacob Rupp	....	stunts
Lee Sollenberger	....	stunts
Rob Wilton	....	stunts

Camera and Electrical Department
Laurent Andrieux	....	first assistant camera
Arthur Cloquet	....	camera operator (1994-1997)
Alexandre Desmars	....	video operator: France (1997)
Saubrie Mohamed	....	electrician
Michel Strasser	....	grip

Casting Department
Fern Champion	....	casting: Los Angeles (1996-1998)
Wendy O'Brien	....	casting: Canada (1996)
Mark Paladini	....	casting: Los Angeles (1996-1998)
Trish Robinson	....	casting: Canada (1992-96)

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Jenny Bernice	....	assistant costume designer
Glenna Owen	....	set costumer (season 5)

Editorial Department
Mike Murphy	....	assistant editor

Transportation Department
Chris J. Clayton	....	driver (season 3)

Other crew
Bob Anderson	....	sword master (1992-1994)
Lynn Barr	....	production coordinator (27 episodes)
Steven Belgard	....	publicist
Bob Corff	....	voice teacher
Katherine Di Marino	....	assistant to producer (1994) (as Katherine Garlick)
Ian Doig	....	animal trainer
Harvey Drouelle	....	assistant: Adrian Paul
Harvey Drouelle	....	production assistant
Dana Dubé	....	animal trainer
April D. Matthews	....	assistant accountant (as April Larsen)
Moira Perlmutter	....	assistant production coordinator (11 episodes 1996)
Frantz Richard	....	location manager (1996-1998)
Andrew Simpson	....	animal trainer
Lee Sollenberger	....	animal handler: bear
Sandra Watson	....	set supervisor
Michael Wolinski	....	office production assistant

Other Companies

• Post Modern Sound  post-production sound services

Runtime:

Argentina:60 min

Certification:

Argentina:13

Episode Didn't Date Well

*** This review may contain spoilers ***

Just saw this episode after a period of years. It concerns an immortal who has taken it upon herself to kill any potential dictator before they come to power . She does this to redeem herself for failing to kill Adolf Hitler when she had had a chance to do so. Duncan MacLeod attempts to stop her.

Okay, my initial thoughts while watching this episode was how badly it has dated. I can't exactly put my finder on it, but I think the culprit is the television format itself. There just is no time to develop these characters and bond with any of them.

Another thing, in light of the vicious be headings by Arab Terrorists of innocent civilians and seeing this streamed from obscure Internet websites, I just can not look at the obligatory sword fight at the end of each "Highlander" episode the same way anymore. Duncan MacLeod, and the other immortals, are serial murderers. There is just no way around it!