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The White King
“The hardest thing to break is the human spirit.”
5.3 / 10• 2016• 1h 29m•NR• English
DramaScience Fiction
Storyline
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.
Cast & Crew
Lorenzo Allchurch
Djata
Lead
Agyness Deyn
Hannah
Fiona Shaw
Kathrin Fitz
Ross Partridge
Peter
Jonathan Pryce
Colonel Fitz
Greta Scacchi
General Meade
Ólafur Darri Ólafsson
Pickaxe
Clare-Hope Ashitey
Gaby
What People Are Saying
3.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Alex Helfrecht's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. The White King is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
