Edge of the World (2021)

Directors

Michael Haussman

Cast

Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Josie Ho, Dominic Monaghan, Ralph Ineson, Hannah New, Otto Farrant, Bront Palarae, Atiqah Hasiholan, Wan Hanafi Su, Shaheizy Sam, Yusuf Mahardika

The story

The film is based on the true story of Brooke, who has been suggested as one of the inspirations for the Rudyard Kipling story The Man Who Would Be King, and Joseph Conrad's novel Lord Jim. Brooke was a former soldier in the Bengal Army who sailed to Borneo (which was still under the control of the Bruneian Sultanate) in 1839, where he helped the Sultan of Brunei's governor (Pengiran Indera Mahkota, title for the governor) put down a local rebellion, and in gratitude was rewarded with the position of governor of what eventually became the Raj of Sarawak, his private kingdom. He was knighted by Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom prior to…

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