The White King
The movie follows Djata, a care-free 12-year-old growing up in a brutal dictatorship shutting off from the outside world, while dealing with persecution against him and his parents by the government.
16 February 1983, Littleborough, Manchester, UK
17 July 1950, The Hague, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
18 February 1960, Milan, Lombardy, Italy
13 March 1973, Connecticut, USA
8 July 1928, Szeged, Hungary
1 June 1947, Holywell, Flintshire, Wales, UK
10 July 1958, County Cork, Ireland
28 March 1970, Isny im Allgäu, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
January 27, 2017
This chilling undertone keeps the audience gripped even when the story seems to spin its wheels.
January 26, 2017
The White King only springs to life when Pryce is on screen, which isn't often.
February 02, 2017
The story exudes natural confidence in its execution of that tension. It knows exactly when to pull you in and push you back.
January 26, 2017
This sad mess of a vaguely sci-fi coming-of-age tale seemingly could not be more plugged into current fears, and yet it feels utterly irrelevant.
January 29, 2017
It's an impressively realised world; the "Homeland" is an agrarian totalitarian state in which any form of dissent is quashed by jackboot justice.
March 30, 2017
The White King is a bold and brave piece of filmmaking that embraces film as an incomplete form. The ideas are presented in such a way that they require the engagement of the audience.
January 27, 2017
The White King never quite fulfils its initial promise as a dystopian young-adult adventure set in a future police state.
January 30, 2017
The makers have clearly thought about what a future reversion to twentieth century-style tyranny would look like, and the design, anthems and details all ring true.
January 27, 2017
The White King is a respectable first feature, but one that would have benefitted from refinement and nuance - a good few moves behind the best films in the genre.
January 23, 2017
Co-directors Alex Helfrecht and Jörg Tittel devise a convincingly scary dystopia crossing Nazi Germany with Stalin's Russia. Too bad Helfrecht's script lets it down.
September 09, 2016
Intriguing but ultimately underwhelming.
January 26, 2017
An intriguing, sombre work.
