The King Is Alive (2001)

Directors

Kristian Levring

Cast

Romane Bohringer, David Calder, David Bradley, Brion James, Miles Anderson, Janet McTeer, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Peter Khubeke, Chris Walker, Vusi Kunene, Lia Williams, Bruce Davison

The story

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.

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