| Valhalla | |
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| Directed by | Peter Madsen Jeffrey J. Varab |
| Written by | Peter Madsen Henning Kure Niels Søndergaard |
| Produced by | Anders Mastrup |
| Starring | Dick Kaysø Preben Kristensen |
| Cinematography | Niels Grønlykke Jan-Erik Sandberg |
| Edited by | Lidia Sablone |
| Music by | Ron Goodwin |
Production company | Swan Film Production A/S |
| Distributed by | Metronome |
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Running time | 76 minutes |
| Country | Denmark |
| Language | Danish |
| Budget | DKK40 million (estimated) |
Valhalla is a Danish animated feature film released in 1986 by Metronome, based on volumes one, four and five of the comics series of the same name, in its turn based on the Scandinavian tales of the Norse mythology, as they are told in Snorri Sturlusons so-called Younger Edda (c. 1230), and in the Poetic Edda. It was directed by Disney animator Jeffrey J. Varab and cartoonist Peter Madsen, the latter of which is one of the writers and the main artist on the Valhalla comics. The movie takes plot elements told from the three comic albums "Cry Wolf", "The Story of Quark" and "The Journey to Útgarða-Loki".
The film was the most expensive Danish film of 1986 and proved popular with audiences with over half a million sold tickets, matching a tenth of Denmark's population at the time. However the enormous cost of the film prevented the producers from regaining the cost of production and, as a result, the film became a financial flop at the box office.