{"id":104323,"date":"2025-08-29T13:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T13:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/104323\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T13:30:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T13:30:08","slug":"first-clip-of-dark-comedy-the-last-viking-starring-mads-mikkelsen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/104323\/","title":{"rendered":"First Clip Of Dark Comedy &#8216;The Last Viking&#8217; Starring Mads Mikkelsen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winning Danish director <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/anders-thomas-jensen\/\" id=\"auto-tag_anders-thomas-jensen\" data-tag=\"anders-thomas-jensen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anders Thomas Jensen<\/a> lands in <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/venice\/\" id=\"auto-tag_venice\" data-tag=\"venice\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Venice<\/a> this weekend with dark comedy <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/the-last-viking\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-last-viking\" data-tag=\"the-last-viking\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Last Viking<\/a>, reuniting him with actors <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/mads-mikkelsen\/\" id=\"auto-tag_mads-mikkelsen\" data-tag=\"mads-mikkelsen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mads Mikkelsen<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/nikolaj-lie-kaas\/\" id=\"auto-tag_nikolaj-lie-kaas\" data-tag=\"nikolaj-lie-kaas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nikolaj Lie Kaas<\/a> who have appeared in all of his films.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tJensen\u2019s sixth feature, The Last Viking revolves around two brothers Anker (Kaas) and Manfred (Mikkelsen). When Anker is released from prison following a fifteen-year sentence for robbery, he is looking forward to getting his hands on the loot<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tManfred, who was given the task of hiding the heist money, has\u00a0developed a mental disorder and can no longer remember where he hid it. Together, the brothers embark on an unexpected journey to locate the money and discover who they really are.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDeadline can reveal a first clip setting the scene for the dark comedy ahead of its Out of Competition premiere in Venice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cThe film explores how our identities are shaped by the perception of others, in the hope that, despite challenges, we can discover our true selves,\u201d says Jensen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cThe focus is on being who you truly want to be. The film highlights that people are more than one thing, encouraging a more holistic outlook that is inherently more forgiving and less judgmental. Also, if you know you are more than one thing, you won\u2019t be as easily offended or take things to heart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe Last Viking is produced by Zentropa Entertainments4 in co-production with Zentropa Sweden and Film i V\u00e4st with support from Danish Film Institute, FilmFyn, Eurimages, Nordisk Film &amp; TV Fond, Swedish Film Institute, and in co-production with Nordisk Film Distribution and TV 2 Danmark<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tTrustNordisk handles International sales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winning Danish director Anders Thomas Jensen lands in Venice this weekend with dark comedy The Last Viking,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[75243,64,63,6693,134,75244,344,75245,75246,15936,69862],"class_list":{"0":"post-104323","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-anders-thomas-jensen","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-denmark","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-mads-mikkelsen","14":"tag-movies","15":"tag-nikolaj-lie-kaas","16":"tag-the-last-viking","17":"tag-venice","18":"tag-venice-film-festival"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}