I na kamnyakh rastut derevya

Early medieval Norway as seen through the eyes of a young Slavic man captured by vikings and taken to the north. Vikings are tough and cruel, main female character is charming, landscapes of Norway are beautiful and the story is interesting and twisted. Adventures, love, battles, intrigue... Viking longboats carefully reconstructed. One of fighting scenes shows what a berserker can do in a melee.

Recommended to viking fans!

Norwegian film industry is known for terrible movies. When it teams up with Soviet film industry the result is already given. The movie is about a Russian boy who gets kidnapped by Norwegian vikings. The vikings think he means good luck and after some time he sort of becomes one of them. The main plot is this boring love story between him and a girl. They can't have each other because she is meant to marry someone else etc.etc. But the funniest thing about this movie is the complete lack of directing, complete lack of acting skills, and the artificial way ALL the dialog is spoken. The battle scenes are just hilarious. It looks like the actors are just doing what they feel like, and that they have been given no instructions at all. For example there is a scene where a character gets hit in the back with a sword, but since he is not meant to die there, absolutely nothing happens!

In the movie Ed Wood, Johnny Depp as Ed Wood says "Perfect!" after every scene shot, even when there are a lot of errors in the scene. That must be exactly the way this movie has been made. If you want a really fun time: Watch this and laugh!!

I saw this movie, in a Moscow theatre, when it was released in 1985. I was entranced, even though I could not understand the language. This is an authentic and fabulous historical movie.......

Why do they stage viking battles, if the actors/stuntmen don't know how to fight? But except for the battles (or lack thereof) the movie give an authentic view of the viking's everyday life, even thou the costumes show that these vikings must be extremely successful.

But when the main conflict is uninteresting and the acting sparkless; I'd rather see "Den hvite viking" (1991) everyday to the end of time than see this one again.

Not bad, not good, just mediocre.

This is one of the most authentic Nord historic fantasies you'd ever see. It does not romanticize the period, 9th century. Shows that most people of that time are rough and respect only sword. But it also takes you on quite an adventure from Russia and all over North Europe.