Letter to the King
Genre | Drama |
Length | 75 min |
Production year | 2014 |
Nationality | Norway |
Director | Hisham Zaman |
Script | Hisham Zaman & Mehmet Aktas |
Producer | Alan Milligan & Hisham Zaman |
Executive producer | Hardi Askari, Knud Bjørne-Larsen & Tom Kjeseth |
Starring | Ivan Anderson, Ali Bag Salimi, Nazmi Kirik, Hassan Dimirci, Amin Sentorzade, Zheer Durhan, Raouf Saraj |
Director of photography | Marius Matzow Gulbrandsen |
Editor | Sverrir Kristjánsson, Inge-Lise Langfeldt & Arild Tryggestad |
Sound design | Carl Svensson |
Composer | David Reyes |
Awards |
Winner Dragon Award, best Nordic film Gothenburg International Film Festival Winner FIPRESCI Prize, Lecce Festival Winner 3 Amanda Awards, Haugesund FF Winner best Film Award, San Marino Film Festival Nominated: best foreign film China, Tromsø, Edinburg, ArtFilm-Fest, Espoo, Sao Paulo, Dubai FF, Films by the Sea, Nordic Film Days Lübeck, The Northern FF |
Letter to the King portrays five people on a day trip from a refugee camp to Oslo, a welcome change in an otherwise monotonous life. But we soon realize that each and every one of them has an agenda for their trip. All five will make decisive choices on this day, as they discover happiness, humiliation, love or fulfill a long-awaited revenge. The five stories are tied together by a letter, written by eighty-three-year-old Mirza. Mirza wants to hand over the letter to the King personally.