The White King
2016
5.3 (47)
1 hr 29 min
English
The hardest thing to break is the human spirit.
$2,494,400
Djata is a care-free 12-year-old growing up in a brutal dictatorship shut off from the outside world. When the government imprisons his father, Peter, and Djata and his mother Hannah are labeled traitors, the boy will not rest until he sees his father again.
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- Status
- Released
- Production
- Proton Cinema, Oiffy
Keywords
- based on novel or book
- killing
- dystopia
- dictatorship
- murder
- family
- woman director
- military prisoners
- murdered
- war
- kill
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Top Cast
Lorenzo Allchurch as Djata
Agyness Deyn as Hannah
Fiona Shaw as Kathrin Fitz
Ross Partridge as Peter
Jonathan Pryce as Colonel Fitz
Greta Scacchi as General Meade
Ólafur Darri Ólafsson as Pickaxe
Clare-Hope Ashitey as Gaby
Top Crew
Alex Helfrecht · Director, Screenplay
Jörg Tittel · Director, Screenplay
György Dragomán · Novel
Joanna Bruzdowicz · Composer
René Richter · Cinematographer
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