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Viking is a Canadian comedy film, directed by Stéphane Lafleur and released in 2022.[1] The film centres on a group of people who are working as a "B team" to reenact the events of the first manned mission to Mars, in the hopes of trying to solve the interpersonal problems among the astronauts that have impacted the real mission.[2]

Viking
Directed by	Stéphane Lafleur
Written by	Stéphane Lafleur Éric K. Boulianne
Produced by	Kim McCraw Luc Déry
Starring	Steve Laplante Larissa Corriveau Fabiola N. Aladin Hamza Haq
Cinematography	Sara Mishara
Edited by	Sophie Leblond
Music by	Organ Mood Mathieu Charbonneau Christophe Ledoux-Lamarche
Production company	micro_scope
Distributed by	Films Opale
Release date	September 12, 2022 (2022-09-12) (TIFF)
Running time	104 minutes
Country	Canada
Language	French

The film's cast includes Steve Laplante, Larissa Corriveau, Fabiola N. Aladin, Hamza Haq, Denis Houle, Marie Brassard and Martin-David Peters.[2]

The film premiered in the Platform Prize program at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival on September 12, 2022.[3]

Critical response

Pat Mullen of That Shelf called Viking "Lafleur's best film yet", and analyzed it in part as an allegory for the technological mediations that society has had to cope with through the COVID-19 pandemic.[4]

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