Redbad (film)

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Redbad
Film poster
Directed byRoel Reiné
Written byAlex van Galen
Produced byRoel Reiné
Klaas de Jong
StarringGijs Naber
CinematographyRoel Reiné
Edited byRadu Ion
Music byTrevor Morris
Production
company
Farmhouse Film & TV
Distributed bySplendid Film
Release date
  • 28 June 2018 (2018-06-28)
Running time
160 minutes
CountryNetherlands
LanguagesDutch
English
Budget€8 million
Box office$482,992[1][2]

Redbad is a 2018 Dutch

Radbod, an early medieval Frisian leader. The film was intended as the middle part of a trilogy about iconic Dutch/Frisian heroes, starting with the film Michiel de Ruyter, about the 17th century admiral Michiel de Ruyter and ending with an unmade film about William of Orange.[4]

Cast

Production

Casting

In August 2017, Gijs Naber, was announced as the lead actor for this film and Huub Stapel would play Redbad's father Frysian king Aldgisl[5] Soon afterwards it was confirmed that Derek de Lint, Egbert-Jan Weber, Loes Haverkort, Lisa Smit, Martijn Fischer, Tuin Keulboer, Aus Greidanus sr., Jack Wouterse, Renée Soutendijk and Birgit Schuurman where all cast [6] and in October 2017 actor Jonathan Banks is cast for the film.[7]

Filming

The film was shot in the prehistoric village-museum in Eindhoven,[8] De Alde Feanen National Park,[9] Ameland, Moddergat,[10] the Wadden Sea, Denmark, the German city of Wallsbüll and the Bouillon Castle in Belgium.[5] The film was shot in 42 days and used more than 10,000 extras, which is a record amount for a Dutch production. The final shooting day was on 19 November 2017.[11] The sound for film movie was produced by Dolby Atmos.[12]

Before the film's release it was already sold to multiple countries and territories, among them

Dutch Comic Con in the Jaarbeurs in Utrecht.[15]

Trailer controversy

In May 2018, the producers of the film announced that YouTube and Facebook had sent an email to them that they would not show the trailer of the film on their platforms because it was considered offensive to large groups of people. Producer Klaas de Jong also mentioned he got hundreds of angry mails from Christians who did not agree with their depiction of historical events.[16]

Release

Box office

The film premiered on 23 June 2018, in an open air screening on the Wilhelminasquare in

World Cup kept the public outside of cinemas.[19][20] The film was released in 4DX in two Pathé-cinemas in Amsterdam and Rotterdam, making it the first Dutch film released in 4DX.[12] Seven weeks after its release it was already moved to video on demand-platform Pathé Thuis. This was at the time the shortest window between a theatre release and home release for a big Dutch production, which normally takes a period of three months.[21] The film was also later edited into a four-part television miniseries, where they showed unused footage of the film.[22]

Critical response

The film received overwhelmingly negative reviews from the major Dutch newspapers.

Roel Reine put his own signature on the film and that the troubled production was barely noticeable. However they do mention that it is sometimes noticeable that they did not have enough extras in some of the fight scenes.[28]

Historical inaccuracies

In an article by Asing Walthaus of the

chainmail armour are from the Late Middle Ages and not from the Early Middle Ages that the film depicts. He also complained that the film portrays the Frysians as barbarians in animal hides living in leaking huts even though it is proven that they lived in wooden houses with woven tapestries on their walls. It was his conclusion that the film puts spectacle over any form of historical accuracy.[29]

Awards and nominations

The film was selected for the international Look-competition of the

Best Foreign Language Film at the 91st Academy Awards, but it was not selected.[31] The film played at the Netherlands Film Festival[32] but was, to the surprise of some major newspapers, not nominated for any Golden Calves.[33][34]

YouTube lawsuit

In November 2018, the producers of the film announced that they would be suing YouTube for 200,000 euros because illegal copies of the film were viewed half a million times on the website.[35]

References

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  28. ^ "Actie, bombast en een afgetrainde Redbad als atheïst - Kunst & Media - PAROOL". Het Parool. 27 June 2018. Retrieved 29 July 2018.
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  31. ^ "Feature Film Academy Entry". EYE Film Institute Netherlands. 20 July 2018. Retrieved 21 July 2018.
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