The King Is Alive
6.6 /10 1 Votes
Music director Hoodlum Priest Language English | 6.4/10 IMDb Genre Drama Duration Country Denmark | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 5 January 2001 (2001-01-05) Screenplay Kristian Levring, Anders Thomas Jensen Cast (Catherine), (Charles), (Gina), David Bradley (Henry), (Ashley), (Jack)Similar movies The Hollow Crown: Richard II , The Hollow Crown: Henry IV - Part 1 , The Hollow Crown: Henry IV - Part 2 , The Hollow Crown: Henry V , An Age of Kings , The Wars of the Roses Tagline As the sand shifts... madness nears. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The King Is Alive is a 2000 film directed by Kristian Levring. The fourth film to be done according to the Dogme 95 rules, it was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival.
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A group of tourists are stranded in the Namibian desert when their bus loses its way and runs out of fuel. Canned carrots and dew keep the tourists alive, but they are helplessly entrapped, completely cut off from the rest of the world. As courage and moral fibre weaken and relationships grow shaky, Henry, a theatrical manager, persuades the group to put on Shakespeare's tragedy King Lear. As the tourists work their way through Henry's hand-written scripts for an audience of only the sand dunes and one distant, indigenous watcher, real life increasingly begins to resemble the play.
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