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Lords of Chaos


UK / Sweden - 2018
Directing by: Jonas Åkerlund
Writing: Dennis Magnusson, Jonas Åkerlund
Cinematography: Pär M. Ekberg
Produced by: Danny Gabai, Fredrik Zander, Jim Czarnecki, Jack Arbuthnott, Erik Gordon, Ko Mori, Kai-Lu Hsiung, Kwesi Dickson
Cast: Rory Culkin, Emory Cohen, Sky Ferreira, Jack Kilmer…
International sales: Vice Media

Legally restricted to persons over 16

Lenght : 112 min // Ratio : 1.78 // Format : dcp
Language : English // Subtitles : French



In the calm Norway of the 1990's, Euronymous founds the Mayhem band and becomes the epicenter of the new Norwegian black metal scene. His meeting with Varg Vikernes, the man behind the musical project Burzum, leads his entourage into crime.

The adaptation of the controversial book Lords of Chaos by Michael Moynihan and Didrik Søderlind is eventually handed to Jonas Åkerlund, though Sono Sion was expected to be in charge initially. Talented music video maker, director of the cult film Spun in 2002, former drummer of the Swedish black metal band Bathory, Åkerlund nevertheless chooses to leave his past aside to tell this story, distraught by the wave of violence which will have marked the history of Norway.