Keswick Film Festival

Synopsis

Pre-Release Screening

The Last Viking starts as a caper movie about a bank robber, Anker (Kaas), who leaves the loot with his traumatized younger brother Manfred (Mikkelsen) right before being incarcerated. Freed years later, Anker tries to recover the cash stash Manfred buried, but first he has to unlock the key to his little brother's trauma – and recover his own memories.

A series of hysterical misadventures and slapstick comedy sequences ensue, however, these are steeped in conflicted fraternal emotions, questions of identity and the iffy concept of normalcy. It's a journey down a resonant rabbit hole with Mikkelsen, hilariously permed, fearlessly silly, emotionally complex and endlessly endearing.