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.
September 25, 2000
28 March 1970, Isny im Allgäu, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
16 February 1983, Littleborough, Manchester, UK
18 February 1960, Milan, Lombardy, Italy
12 February 1987, Enfield, Middlesex, England, UK
26 July 1968, Camden Town, London, England, UK
22 February 1959, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
13 March 1973, Connecticut, USA
8 July 1928, Szeged, Hungary
17 July 1950, The Hague, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
26 February 1968, Kingston, New York, USA
1 June 1947, Holywell, Flintshire, Wales, UK
10 July 1958, County Cork, Ireland
January 27, 2017
This chilling undertone keeps the audience gripped even when the story seems to spin its wheels.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 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.September 09, 2016
Intriguing but ultimately underwhelming.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.January 26, 2017
An intriguing, sombre work.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 26, 2017
The White King only springs to life when Pryce is on screen, which isn't often.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.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.