The King Is Alive
While shifting airports by bus in Africa, a group of passengers is driven to the middle of nowhere in the desert by the driver that is following a defective compass. They run out of gas and they reach a ghost village inhabited by a single man, Kanana. One passenger that has experience with desert gives five advices to the others to survive in the spot, among them to keep the spirit high, while he travels through the desert seeking for help. One intellectual in the stranded group suggests the performance of King Lear to keep the morale of the survivors. Along the days, while hope decreases, the tension increases among the survivors.
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Drama
2000
110 min
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Movie Info:
- Full Name : The King Is Alive
- Duration : 110 min
- Languages : English, French
- Writers : William Shakespeare (with: inspiration from "King Lear"), Kristian Levring, Anders Thomas Jensen
- Directors : Kristian Levring min
- Imdb : 6.4 (1654 votes)
- Tomatoes : 3.3 (1079 votes)
- Actors : Miles Anderson, Romane Bohringer, David Bradley, David Calder
Movie Storyline
While shifting airports by bus in Africa, a group of passengers is driven to the middle of nowhere in the desert by the driver that is following a defective compass. They run out of gas and they reach a ghost village inhabited by a single man, Kanana. One passenger that has experience with desert gives five advices to the others to survive in the spot, among them to keep the spirit high, while he travels through the desert seeking for help. One intellectual in the stranded group suggests the performance of King Lear to keep the morale of the survivors. Along the days, while hope decreases, the tension increases among the survivors.