The Vinland Club (2021)

Original title

Le club Vinland

Directed by

Benoît Pilon

Genre

drama

Country

Canada

Runtime

2h 05m

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In the 1940s a priest at a Catholic school in rural Quebec gets his students to search for evidence of Viking settlement in North America. The film is about their project and the relationship between the priest and the boys.

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What happens

The Vinland Club (French: Le Club Vinland) is a Canadian drama film that was directed by Benoît Pilon and released in 2020. The film stars Sébastien Ricard as Frère Jean, a priest teaching at a private Roman Catholic school in the Charlevoix region of Quebec in the 1940s who enlists his students in a project to locate archaeological evidence of the ancient Norse settlement of Vinland. The film's cast also includes Rémy Girard, François Papineau, Fabien Cloutier, Arnaud Vachon, Xavier Huard, Émilie Bibeau, Guy Thauvette, Guy Sprung, and Émile Schneider. The film was originally slated for release on April 17, 2020, but that was delayed by the shutdown of movie theatres in light of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada. The film had its world premiere at the Beijing International Film Festival in August 2020 and had its North American premiere later that year at the Abitibi-Témiscamingue International Film Festival on October 31. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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