A brother's death sets old law in motion in Viking, the 2022 Canadian feature that carries its central character from a Kyiv court to the frozen edges of Sweden in pursuit of it.
What is Viking about?
Set in the late tenth century around Sviatoslav I of Kyiv, Viking opens with the sudden death of the ruler's father and the discovery that one of the sons, Oleg, has been killed by his half-brother. Custom leaves the surviving younger brother bound to avenge Oleg, and that obligation drives him away from the court and toward the frozen seas near Sweden, where the man responsible has fled. Rather than a straightforward chase, the film sits with the weight of a duty passed down through inheritance law rather than personal choice, following a protagonist who has to carry out an act he may not have sought for himself. Director Stéphane Lafleur, working from Canada, frames the medieval setting with an unhurried, wintry patience, letting the cold landscapes do as much work as the confrontations. Steve Laplante leads a cast that includes Larissa Corriveau, Fabiola N. Aladin, Hamza Haq, Denis Houle, Marie Brassard and Martin David Peters across the film's roughly two-and-a-quarter-hour runtime.
About the cast
Steve Laplante takes the central role in Viking, with Larissa Corriveau and Fabiola N. Aladin in key supporting parts. Hamza Haq, Denis Houle, Marie Brassard, Martin David Peters and Marie-Laurence Moreau round out the ensemble, moving between the Kyiv court and the Scandinavian setting the story travels toward.
Context & significance
Viking is a Canadian production from 2022 directed by Stéphane Lafleur, blending action, drama, and historical war elements into a single period piece. Its setting in Kyivan Rus' and its journey toward Sweden give it a distinct geography among historical dramas streaming today, and the film leans on that late tenth-century backdrop as period detail rather than commentary on anything contemporary.
Watching Viking on Ktime
Viking streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing available, though Persian subtitles are not offered for this title, so dub is the way to follow it in Farsi. The page itself is free to browse, and watching only requires signing into a K-Time account, on a service built around the Farsi-language experience for Iranian viewers abroad.