| Viking | |
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| Directed by | Stéphane Lafleur |
| Written by | Stéphane Lafleur Éric K. Boulianne |
| Produced by | Kim McCraw Luc Déry |
| Starring | Steve Laplante Larissa Corriveau Fabiola N. Aladin Hamza Haq |
| Cinematography | Sara Mishara |
| Edited by | Sophie Leblond |
| Music by | Organ Mood Mathieu Charbonneau Christophe Ledoux-Lamarche |
Production company | micro_scope |
| Distributed by | Films Opale |
Release date |
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Running time | 104 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | French |
Viking is a 2022 Canadian comedy film, directed by Stéphane Lafleur.[1] The film centres on a group of people who are working as a "B team" to reenact the events of the first crewed mission to Mars, in the hopes of trying to solve the interpersonal problems among the astronauts that have impacted the real mission.[2]
The film's cast includes Steve Laplante, Larissa Corriveau, Fabiola Nyrva Aladin, Hamza Haq, Denis Houle, Marie Brassard and Martin-David Peters.[2]
The film premiered in the Platform Prize program at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival on September 12, 2022.[3]
In 2023, the film was released in France under the alternate title On dirait la planète mars.[4]
- ^ "Viking de Stéphane Lafleur en première mondiale". La Presse, August 3, 2022.
- ^ a b "Stéphane Lafleur tourne Viking". Films du Québec (in French). Retrieved 2022-12-14.
- ^ Kay2022-08-03T13:59:00+01:00, Jeremy. "Frances O'Connor's 'Emily' to open TIFF Platform alongside films from Maïmouna Doucouré, Rima Das". Screen Daily. Retrieved 2022-12-14.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Mathieu Macheret, "« On dirait la planète Mars » : Stéphane Lafleur met en scène des astronautes sur le plancher des vaches". Le Monde, August 2, 2023.