Viking (2022)

Directed by

Stéphane Lafleur

Genre

comedy film, science fiction film, comedy drama

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 44m

Rated

TP

Rating

5.5 of 10 from 32 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of people work as a backup team reenacting a simulated Mars mission. They try to fix the real astronauts' conflicts by acting out problems on Earth.

quirkylow-keyamusinggroundedoffbeatthoughtfulmildly satiricalcalm

What happens

Viking is a 2022 Canadian comedy film, directed by Stéphane Lafleur. The film centres on a group of people who are working as a "B team" to reenact the events of the first crewed mission to Mars, in the hopes of trying to solve the interpersonal problems among the astronauts that have impacted the real mission. The film's cast includes Steve Laplante, Larissa Corriveau, Fabiola Nyrva Aladin, Hamza Haq, Denis Houle, Marie Brassard and Martin-David Peters. The film premiered in the Platform Prize program at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival on September 12, 2022. In 2023, the film was released in France under the alternate title On dirait la planète mars. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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