The Last Viking (2025)
Original title: Den sidste viking
The Last Viking is a 2025 Danish-language comedy movie directed by Anders Thomas Jensen, with a running time of 1h 56m. It stars Mads Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas and Sofie Gråbøl.
Anker walks out of prison after fourteen years, having stayed silent about the robbery that put him there. The one person who knows where the stolen money is hidden is his brother Manfred, who is mentally ill and has forgotten the location entirely. So the pair set off across Denmark to jog Manfred's memory and dig up the loot, a road trip that keeps curdling into a reckoning with who they have become. Anders Thomas Jensen directs this black comedy, casting Nikolaj Lie Kaas and Mads Mikkelsen as the mismatched brothers.
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What is The Last Viking about?
Anker walks out of prison after fourteen years, having stayed silent about the robbery that put him there. The one person who knows where the stolen money is hidden is his brother Manfred, who is mentally ill and has forgotten the location entirely. So the pair set off across Denmark to jog Manfred's memory and dig up the loot, a road trip that keeps curdling into a reckoning with who they have become. Anders Thomas Jensen directs this black comedy, casting Nikolaj Lie Kaas and Mads Mikkelsen as the mismatched brothers.
When was The Last Viking released?
The Last Viking was released on 9 October 2025.
How long is The Last Viking?
The Last Viking runs 1h 56m.
Who made The Last Viking?
The Last Viking was directed by Anders Thomas Jensen.
Where can I watch The Last Viking?
The Last Viking is available on Amazon, AppleTV and Fandango at Home.
Where to watch The Last Viking
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Cast
- Mads Mikkelsen as Manfred
- Nikolaj Lie Kaas as Anker
- Sofie Gråbøl as Margrethe
- Søren Malling as Werner
- Bodil Jørgensen as Freja
- Lars Brygmann as Lothar / Keld Gerner Nielsen
- Nicolas Bro as Flinke Flemming
- Kardo Razzazi as Hamdan
- Peter Düring as Anton / Ringo
- Lars Ranthe as Far
- Rikke Louise Andersson as Mor
- Alfred Røssel Læsø as Anker som barn
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A few thoughts on The Last Viking
Anders Thomas Jensen's own Adam's Apples runs on the same engine, deadpan Danish cruelty wrapped around real tenderness and built for Mads Mikkelsen's gallows humor. For the crime-gone-sideways farce, the Coen brothers' Fargo is the natural companion, and In Bruges matches its blend of guilt, brotherhood and very dark laughs.
Brothers dragged into a heist gone wrong, played for dark laughs
Anker and Manfred's road trip to recover buried robbery money, its location locked in Manfred's damaged memory, sits inside a small tradition of crime stories where family curdles under pressure. In China They Eat Dogs and Flickering Lights mine the same Danish gangster deadpan, while Trapped in Paradise and Bottle Rocket send mismatched partners chasing a score that keeps slipping from their hands.
Deadpan crime comedies about hitmen and reluctant tough guys
The Last Viking treats its ex-con and his brother with the same dry humor these films bring to violent professions. The Gentlemen plays a drug empire handover as droll ensemble comedy, Analyze That sends a mob boss back to crime with a therapist's voice in his head, The Kill Room finds laughs in hitmen navigating the art world, and Defendor and Panic follow men whose grip on life is slipping.
Small crimes that spiral completely out of control
Anker and Manfred's simple plan to dig up old loot keeps derailing into bigger trouble, the same slow-motion unraveling that drives these crime comedies. Fargo turns one desperate man's cover-up into a chain of bodies nobody wanted, Breaking News in Yuba County spins a cover story into a media circus, and Intermission and Plastic follow small-time schemers whose plans come apart in ways that keep getting funnier and worse.