The King Is Alive

The King Is Alive
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Directed by	Kristian Levring
Produced by	Vibeke Windeløv
Written by	Kristian Levring Anders Thomas Jensen
Starring	Miles Anderson, Romane Bohringer, David Bradley, David Calder, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Brion James
Music by	Jan Juhler
Cinematography	Jens Schlosser
Edited by	Nicholas Wayman Harris
Distributed by	Nordisk Film Distribution A/S
Release dates	5 January 2001 (2001-01-05)
Running time	109 minutes
Country	Denmark
Language	English

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.

Synopsis

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.

Cast

• Miles Anderson – Jack
• Romane Bohringer – Catherine
• David Bradley – Henry
• David Calder – Charles
• Bruce Davison – Ray
• Brion James – Ashley
• Peter Khubeke – Kanana (as Peter Kubheka)
• Vusi Kunene – Moses
• Jennifer Jason Leigh – Gina
• Janet McTeer – Liz
• Chris Walker – Paul
• Lia Williams – Amanda

External links

• The King Is Alive at IMDb
• The King Is Alive in the Danish National Filmography