Title: The White King
Original Title: The White King
Year: 2016
Info
- Country: UK Germany
- Length: 89 Minutes (1 hour 29 min)
- Genre: Drama Science fiction
- Studios: Proton Cinema
- Distributor: Signature Entertainment
- Age rating: 12 (Suitable for 12 years and over)
Release Dates
- UK: January 27 2017
Plot
Djata (Lorenzo Allchurch) is only twelve years old boy and he is growing up in a brutal dictatorship. When the Government imprisons his father Peter and acuse him and his mother Hannah as labeled traitors, the boy will try all than he can do untill he sees his father again. 'The White King' is a dystopian drama based in the awarded novel of Norwegian autor György Dragomán. The second novel of the writer was translated in 28 languages.
The same autor expressed his opinion about the adaptation. As he explains, the two filmmakers Alex Helfrecht and Jörg Tittel perfectly understand the nature of the visual reality that he created in the book. The cast is composed by Agyness Dean, Jonathan Pryce, Ross Partridge, Fiona Shaw, Greta Scacchi and already mentioned Lorenzo Allchurch.
Cast
Sophia (voice)
Colonel Fitz
General Meade
Hannah
Kathrin Fitz
Peter
Silver Hair
Videos
'The White King' Teaser Trailer
January 19 2017
January 19 2017
Photos
Trivia
Based on
The film is based on György Dragomán's second novel.
Game of Thrones
Jonathan Pryce, the actor who starring Colonel Fitz in the film, is one of the HBO series Game of Thrones's character. He plays High Sparrow in the fiction.
Dragomán about the film adaptation
Dragomán says about the film adaptation: "When I read the first draft of the script, I knew right away that the filmmakers understand fully the nature of the visual reality I created in the book. Alex and Jörg the ideal candidates to turn my writing into a movie with universal appeal".
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