The Boston Globe’s investigative unit called “Spotlight,” uncovered an unspeakable scandal that rocked the Catholic Church. The team of journalists spent nearly a year investigating on how members of the church tried to protect certain members of the clergy after allegedly accused of sexual abuse. And they discover a much larger scandal during the process.
“Spotlight” is a dramatic film about those Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists that starred Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Liev Scheiber and Stanley Tucci. It is directed by Thomas McCarthy.
Latino-Review had an exclusive phone interview with writer Josh Singer for bringing this fascinating story to the big screen.
“Spotlight” is now playing in theaters everywhere.
Read the interview transcript below.
Latino-Review: Tell me why you were attracted to this film called, “Spotlight.”
Josh Singer: I just finished writing “The Fifth Estate.” I very much enjoyed writing about journalists. I had more to say though.
“Spotlight” is a dramatic film about those Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists that starred Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Liev Scheiber and Stanley Tucci. It is directed by Thomas McCarthy.
Latino-Review had an exclusive phone interview with writer Josh Singer for bringing this fascinating story to the big screen.
“Spotlight” is now playing in theaters everywhere.
Read the interview transcript below.
Latino-Review: Tell me why you were attracted to this film called, “Spotlight.”
Josh Singer: I just finished writing “The Fifth Estate.” I very much enjoyed writing about journalists. I had more to say though.
- 11/20/2015
- by Gig Patta
- LRMonline.com
With Captain America: Civil War—the third entry in the star-spangled series—set to begin shooting next spring, the cast is taking a more clearly defined shape. In recent weeks, it was revealed that the film will include Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark and Chadwick Boseman as the Black Panther and today Marvel announced that Daniel Brühl has joined the growing cast.
Marvel has yet to officially announce what role Daniel Brühl will tackle in Captain America: Civil War, but there has been speculation that he will play a key villain. Brühl is perhaps best known for playing Fredrick Zoller in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, Niki Lauda in Ron Howard’s Rush, and Daniel Berg in Bill Condon’s The Fifth Estate.
Captain America: Civil War is scheduled to begin production next spring and is set for a May 6th, 2016 release, with brothers Anthony and Joe Russo (the...
Marvel has yet to officially announce what role Daniel Brühl will tackle in Captain America: Civil War, but there has been speculation that he will play a key villain. Brühl is perhaps best known for playing Fredrick Zoller in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, Niki Lauda in Ron Howard’s Rush, and Daniel Berg in Bill Condon’s The Fifth Estate.
Captain America: Civil War is scheduled to begin production next spring and is set for a May 6th, 2016 release, with brothers Anthony and Joe Russo (the...
- 11/15/2014
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
How do you make a movie about someone who's not only an important world figure, but someone who doesn't want a movie made about them at all? How do you play a guy who's changing all the time, and whose complicated view of the world has changed media forever? How do you make a movie about two guys typing on laptops interesting period? Benedict Cumberbatch and Bill Condon learned this firsthand making The Fifth Estate, a new drama in theaters this weekend about the founding of Wikileaks, and how Julian Assange (played by Cumberbatch, an eerie doppelgänger for the man himself) turned the organization into a giant force, but alienated his friend and co-founder Daniel Berg (Daniel Bruhl) in the process. It's a complicated story with massive consequences-- with Chelsea Manning still in prison, we're still very much living in Julian Assange's world. The Fifth Estate, based on a...
- 10/19/2013
- cinemablend.com
How do you make a movie about someone who's not only an important world figure, but someone who doesn't want a movie made about them at all? How do you play a guy who's changing all the time, and whose complicated view of the world has changed media forever? How do you make a movie about two guys typing on laptops interesting period? Benedict Cumberbatch learned this firsthand making The Fifth Estate, a new drama in theaters this weekend about the founding of Wikileaks, and how Julian Assange (played by Cumberbatch, an eerie doppelgänger for the man himself) turned the organization into a giant force, but alienated his friend and co-founder Daniel Berg (Daniel Bruhl) in the process. It's a complicated story with massive consequences-- with Chelsea Manning still in prison, we're still very much living in Julian Assange's world. The Fifth Estate, based on a book that Berg...
- 10/19/2013
- cinemablend.com
If there's one film to see this year, it's 12 Years a Slave, a wrenching but rewarding historical epic. See This12 Years a Slave var brightcovevideoid = '2752863002001'; Sometimes we have to do hard things. I can't think of a film in a recent memory I have been so compelled to sit through, wrestling all the while with how difficult it is to do so. 12 Years a Slave is, to put it simply, the first film to truly convey the horrors of what used to be called the "peculiar institution." But it is such a brilliantly directed, written and performed piece of cinema,...
- 10/18/2013
- PEOPLE.com
I gotta agree with budding film critic Julian Assange on this one: The Fifth Estate, which purports to depict the rise of the WikiLeaks founder, played by Benedict Cumberbatch and the momentous release of documents supplied by (then) Bradley Manning, is a feeble, reactionary drama. Director Bill Condon and screenwriter Josh Singer have decided to frame this as a saga of seduction and disillusionment. Daniel Berg (Daniel Bruhl) falls under the spell of Assange, exults in WikiLeaks’ cyberomnipotence, and then realizes that his charismatic leader is psychotically indifferent to the human cost of releasing government documents. (Assange won’t redact.) To illustrate this, the filmmakers invent a pair of U.S. spy masters played by Laura Linney and Stanley Tucci, who must smuggle the doctor from Deep Space 9 across a border. It gets hairy.You don’t have to be an Assange groupie (or a paranoiac) to think Condon finally...
- 10/18/2013
- by David Edelstein
- Vulture
It’s been only a week since Captain Phillips headed right from the news into the multiplexes. Well it’s already time for another big studio, ripped-from-the-headlines docudrama. Most of the action takes place in 2009 as did Cp, but the people in our new film are still making news while the hijacking wrapped up in a few days. The Fifth Estate is an ongoing, still unfolding story because it concerns the website Wikileaks and it’s still controversial founder. Its title refers to the news media. The fourth estate was another term for the press: newspapers, books, and magazines. The new estate is in cyberspace, the websites that can send information everywhere in almost the blink of an eye. Yes we’re in much of the same territory as the 2010 film The Social Network. But the stakes are much higher here than the lawsuits and broken friendships of that look at Facebook.
- 10/18/2013
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The Season of Benedict Cumberbatch officially begins on Friday, when the popular Sherlock actor appears in two festival films with Oscar ambitions. In 12 Years a Slave, which opens limited in six cities, he plays a morally compromised slave owner in the 1840s. But it’s The Fifth Estate where Cumberbatch takes center stage, starring as controversial WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Influenced by The Social Network and All the President’s Men, director Bill Condon’s film tells the still-unfolding story of Assange’s underground website, which became a clearinghouse for industrial and state secrets leaked by whistleblowers like Chelsea Manning (né Bradley Manning), the U.
- 10/18/2013
- by Jeff Labrecque
- EW - Inside Movies
As the world doesn't seem to have quite made up its mind about Julian Assange, it seems fitting that the new film about him and the rise of Wikileaks has an ambivalence about it as well.
"The Fifth Estate" takes us inside hackers' milieu, the personalities and news stories that blew up thanks to Wikileaks. It visits the very real consequences of Assange's actions. But it never gets inside the man, what drives him, what justifies the arrogant self-righteousness that he built his worldview upon.
Director Bill ("Kinsey" / "Dreamgirls") Condon dazzles us with the whirl of Assange's crusade, following him from Africa to Europe, zipping from one trouble spot, where the release of secret documents might make a difference, to another.
In a breathless two hours, the film lets us see the man through the eyes of a new recruit and close associate. Young Euro-hacker Daniel Berg (Daniel Bruhl of...
"The Fifth Estate" takes us inside hackers' milieu, the personalities and news stories that blew up thanks to Wikileaks. It visits the very real consequences of Assange's actions. But it never gets inside the man, what drives him, what justifies the arrogant self-righteousness that he built his worldview upon.
Director Bill ("Kinsey" / "Dreamgirls") Condon dazzles us with the whirl of Assange's crusade, following him from Africa to Europe, zipping from one trouble spot, where the release of secret documents might make a difference, to another.
In a breathless two hours, the film lets us see the man through the eyes of a new recruit and close associate. Young Euro-hacker Daniel Berg (Daniel Bruhl of...
- 10/17/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Daniel Brühl is certainly breaking onto the scene lately, and in a big way.
He's co-starring alongside Benedict Cumberbatch in the Wikileaks movie "The Fifth Estate," which is being released this week, and he also led racing movie "Rush" with Chris Hemsworth back in September. In "The Fifth Estate," Brühl plays real-life character Daniel Berg, who's portrayed as Assange's right-hand man, and also as the entity who tempered the fire of the internet icon.
Moviefone caught up with Brühl at the Toronto Film Festival, where he chatted with us about taking on real-life roles, what Daniel Berg is like in real life, and how the relationship between he and Assange grew, and ultimately fell apart.
How early on were you aware that this movie was going to be from your perspective as opposed to being from Julian Assange's perspective?
Daniel Brühl: I didn't know it when I received the script.
He's co-starring alongside Benedict Cumberbatch in the Wikileaks movie "The Fifth Estate," which is being released this week, and he also led racing movie "Rush" with Chris Hemsworth back in September. In "The Fifth Estate," Brühl plays real-life character Daniel Berg, who's portrayed as Assange's right-hand man, and also as the entity who tempered the fire of the internet icon.
Moviefone caught up with Brühl at the Toronto Film Festival, where he chatted with us about taking on real-life roles, what Daniel Berg is like in real life, and how the relationship between he and Assange grew, and ultimately fell apart.
How early on were you aware that this movie was going to be from your perspective as opposed to being from Julian Assange's perspective?
Daniel Brühl: I didn't know it when I received the script.
- 10/16/2013
- by Chris Jancelewicz
- Moviefone
Benedict Cumberbatch's uncanny portrayal of the WikiLeaks founder aside, the most significant moments result from a few keystrokes on a laptop – as in reality
The Fifth Estate (2013)
Director: Bill Condon
Entertainment grade: C
History grade: B+
WikiLeaks, an online organisation publishing secret information, became internationally prominent by the end of the first decade of the 21st century.
Importance
The Fifth Estate begins grandly with a montage of the history of media, from people chipping hieroglyphics on pyramids through the invention of the printing press to the televised announcement of John F Kennedy's assassination. The end result of this great sweep of events, it suggests, was a platinum blond Australian bombshell, Julian Assange (Benedict Cumberbatch), leaking stuff on a website. As the film begins in 2012 his former Bff, Daniel Berg (Domscheit-Berg in real life, here played by Daniel Brühl), is trying to send him a message over and over again: "Julian,...
The Fifth Estate (2013)
Director: Bill Condon
Entertainment grade: C
History grade: B+
WikiLeaks, an online organisation publishing secret information, became internationally prominent by the end of the first decade of the 21st century.
Importance
The Fifth Estate begins grandly with a montage of the history of media, from people chipping hieroglyphics on pyramids through the invention of the printing press to the televised announcement of John F Kennedy's assassination. The end result of this great sweep of events, it suggests, was a platinum blond Australian bombshell, Julian Assange (Benedict Cumberbatch), leaking stuff on a website. As the film begins in 2012 his former Bff, Daniel Berg (Domscheit-Berg in real life, here played by Daniel Brühl), is trying to send him a message over and over again: "Julian,...
- 10/16/2013
- by Alex von Tunzelmann
- The Guardian - Film News
Might be interesting if it had enough passion and guts to take a stand, but ends up in the mushy middle of the road, which surely sprang from a desire to be “fair” and “balanced.” I’m “biast” (pro): fascinated by Julian Assange and WikiLeaks; adore Benedict Cumberbatch
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
I have not read the source material
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
There was a small knot of confused-looking people hovering around outside the opening-day multiplex showing of The Fifth Estate I attended in central London, trying to push flyers on moviegoers that would convince us that the film is a propagandistic anti-Assange, WikiLeaks-bashing hack job. They were still there when I exited, and it was all I could do to restrain myself from asking, “Have ya actually seen the film?”
Cuz The Fifth Estate is nothing of the kind. It...
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
I have not read the source material
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
There was a small knot of confused-looking people hovering around outside the opening-day multiplex showing of The Fifth Estate I attended in central London, trying to push flyers on moviegoers that would convince us that the film is a propagandistic anti-Assange, WikiLeaks-bashing hack job. They were still there when I exited, and it was all I could do to restrain myself from asking, “Have ya actually seen the film?”
Cuz The Fifth Estate is nothing of the kind. It...
- 10/14/2013
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Benedict Cumberbatch is brilliant as Julian Assange in a flashy but essentially hollow account of the rise and fall of WikiLeaks
"He's not a source, he's the head of a huge media empire, accountable to no one. And we put him there." The story of Julian Assange's relationship with the world at large, the media in general and the Guardian in particular was recently told in engrossing detail in Alex Gibney's documentary We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks. That film (which provoked an equally detailed response from its subject) concluded that Assange was an information freedom fighter who became overwhelmed by his own ego, descending into recklessness, deviousness and worse.
Now, amid the usual denunciations from the white-haired one, comes Bill Condon's more overtly dramatic but less piercing biopic. Based in part upon Daniel Domscheit-Berg's account of his time as Assange's partner at "the world's...
"He's not a source, he's the head of a huge media empire, accountable to no one. And we put him there." The story of Julian Assange's relationship with the world at large, the media in general and the Guardian in particular was recently told in engrossing detail in Alex Gibney's documentary We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks. That film (which provoked an equally detailed response from its subject) concluded that Assange was an information freedom fighter who became overwhelmed by his own ego, descending into recklessness, deviousness and worse.
Now, amid the usual denunciations from the white-haired one, comes Bill Condon's more overtly dramatic but less piercing biopic. Based in part upon Daniel Domscheit-Berg's account of his time as Assange's partner at "the world's...
- 10/12/2013
- by Mark Kermode
- The Guardian - Film News
The Fifth Estate | Le Week-end | Machete Kills | Not Another Happy Ending | Baggage Claim | Romeo & Juliet | Nobody's Daughter Haewon
The Fifth Estate (15)
(Bill Condon, 2013, Us/Bel) Benedict Cumberbatch, Daniel Brühl, David Thewlis, Laura Linney, Peter Capaldi. 128 mins
Cumberbatch was seemingly born to play Julian Assange, though this pacy hot-button-issue thriller struggles to make the Wikileaks story into another Social Network. There are some questionable cinematic flourishes (ooh, cyberspace!), but at the core is the bromance between Brühl's wide-eyed German techie (Daniel Berg) and the enigmatic Aussie – partners in a morally hazardous social justice crusade that climaxes with, er, the Guardian.
Le Week-end (15)
(Roger Michell, 2013, UK) Jim Broadbent, Lindsay Duncan, Jeff Goldblum. 93 mins
Before Midnight for seniors, as a 60-something couple's Parisian second honeymoon gives rise to bickering, regrets, and fears for the future, but youthful romantic comedy too. There's wit and wisdom in the writing and the seasoned performers are very good company.
The Fifth Estate (15)
(Bill Condon, 2013, Us/Bel) Benedict Cumberbatch, Daniel Brühl, David Thewlis, Laura Linney, Peter Capaldi. 128 mins
Cumberbatch was seemingly born to play Julian Assange, though this pacy hot-button-issue thriller struggles to make the Wikileaks story into another Social Network. There are some questionable cinematic flourishes (ooh, cyberspace!), but at the core is the bromance between Brühl's wide-eyed German techie (Daniel Berg) and the enigmatic Aussie – partners in a morally hazardous social justice crusade that climaxes with, er, the Guardian.
Le Week-end (15)
(Roger Michell, 2013, UK) Jim Broadbent, Lindsay Duncan, Jeff Goldblum. 93 mins
Before Midnight for seniors, as a 60-something couple's Parisian second honeymoon gives rise to bickering, regrets, and fears for the future, but youthful romantic comedy too. There's wit and wisdom in the writing and the seasoned performers are very good company.
- 10/12/2013
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Benedict Cumberbatch aces Assange – but the WikiLeaks chief goes unchallenged in an otherwise watchable film
• David Cameron praises Cumberbatch's Assange
• Assange urges Cumberbatch to quit the film
Is he Woodward'n'Bernstein – or Deep Throat? Might he even be Tricky Dicky himself? This movie's ambivalence towards its protagonist, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, sometimes looks like complexity, but also an odd sort of fence-sitting. Biopics of this kind are usually conceived when their subjects' careers and reputations are at rest, and the consensus of liberal opinion securely established. But Assange is still holed up in London's Ecuadorian embassy, and the debate about the sexual charges he faces in Sweden is far from over. The film acknowledges that issue in the closing credits, but there is certainly no dramatisation of the disputed events, and the film sometimes behaves as if the difficulties in Assange's personality are structural problems in the story to be smoothed away.
• David Cameron praises Cumberbatch's Assange
• Assange urges Cumberbatch to quit the film
Is he Woodward'n'Bernstein – or Deep Throat? Might he even be Tricky Dicky himself? This movie's ambivalence towards its protagonist, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, sometimes looks like complexity, but also an odd sort of fence-sitting. Biopics of this kind are usually conceived when their subjects' careers and reputations are at rest, and the consensus of liberal opinion securely established. But Assange is still holed up in London's Ecuadorian embassy, and the debate about the sexual charges he faces in Sweden is far from over. The film acknowledges that issue in the closing credits, but there is certainly no dramatisation of the disputed events, and the film sometimes behaves as if the difficulties in Assange's personality are structural problems in the story to be smoothed away.
- 10/11/2013
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
In The Fifth Estate, which tells the story of Julian Assange’s crusade to expose the dirty secrets of corporations and governments, director Bill Condon tries to tell the story from both sides. There’s the WikiLeaks team of Assange (Benedict Cumberbatch) and Daniel Berg (Daniel Brühl), who are taking down Goliath one cyber sling-shot at a time. And then there’s the scrambling U.S. government, represented best in the movie by a mid-level State Department bureaucrat played by Laura Linney. She’s important enough to be able to sign Hillary Clinton’s name on her briefs and smart...
- 10/9/2013
- by Jeff Labrecque
- EW - Inside Movies
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
The Internet. Crazy, isn’t it? All that free flowing information, instantaneously available at the tip of anyone’s fingers who knows how to search for it. And it really democratizes the world, right? I mean, it gives power to the people, you know, man.
This is the clichéd, armchair philosopher’s understanding of the internet, and though it is not necessarily inaccurate, unless you have been living in cave or an Amish community for the last decade, it isn’t all that profound either. Nevertheless, this is more or less the attitude of The Fifth Estate, the first fictional feature film to tackle the life of hactivist Julian Assange, the founder of the famous (or infamous depending on who you are) Wikileaks.
The film at the outset is seemingly about the relationship between Julian Assange (Benedict Cumberbatch) and Daniel Berg (Daniel Bruhl), his carefully chosen...
The Internet. Crazy, isn’t it? All that free flowing information, instantaneously available at the tip of anyone’s fingers who knows how to search for it. And it really democratizes the world, right? I mean, it gives power to the people, you know, man.
This is the clichéd, armchair philosopher’s understanding of the internet, and though it is not necessarily inaccurate, unless you have been living in cave or an Amish community for the last decade, it isn’t all that profound either. Nevertheless, this is more or less the attitude of The Fifth Estate, the first fictional feature film to tackle the life of hactivist Julian Assange, the founder of the famous (or infamous depending on who you are) Wikileaks.
The film at the outset is seemingly about the relationship between Julian Assange (Benedict Cumberbatch) and Daniel Berg (Daniel Bruhl), his carefully chosen...
- 9/8/2013
- by Christopher Lominac
- Obsessed with Film
In the not too distant future, it’s possible audiences will react to cinematic depictions of 20th century journalism the way we do now when seeing characters smoke in a restaurant, as double-take-inducing behavioural relics from an older time period. It’s what makes Citizen Kane an impossible film to modernize, structurally speaking. Hopping on planes, beating the pavement, and finding out who a person was by talking with those who knew them personally? How positively quaint, says The Fifth Estate, the new Wikileaks drama. While you’re still packing to visit the subject’s nearest and dearest, I’ve already gained access to their career history, interests, hopes, dreams, and political leanings in minutes – all it cost me was a friend request and a follow.
Anyone with a keyboard now has a soapbox from which to stand in front of the whole world, but that’s only made it...
Anyone with a keyboard now has a soapbox from which to stand in front of the whole world, but that’s only made it...
- 9/7/2013
- by Sam Woolf
- We Got This Covered
Director: Bill Condon; Screenwriter: Josh Singer; Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Daniel Brühl, Peter Capaldi, Dan Stevens, David Thewlis; Running time: 124 mins
There are several existing and in development films about WikiLeaks, the whistleblowing site founded by Julian Assange, but few may live up to the odd spectacle of director Bill Condon's The Fifth Estate. The film is a trendy adaptation of Daniel Berg's Inside WikiLeaks, an autobiographical portrait of the German technology activist's time at the controversial organisation, as a programmer, a spokesperson, and right-hand man to its founder.
Benedict Cumberbatch plays Assange as a white haired genius who in 2007 recruits Berg (Daniel Brühl) to help him run his underground whistleblower site with the goal of revealing the truth, by any means necessary. Spanning five years, the movie gives context to the stories we all know. Focusing on some of the most explosive leaks from the website, starting with...
There are several existing and in development films about WikiLeaks, the whistleblowing site founded by Julian Assange, but few may live up to the odd spectacle of director Bill Condon's The Fifth Estate. The film is a trendy adaptation of Daniel Berg's Inside WikiLeaks, an autobiographical portrait of the German technology activist's time at the controversial organisation, as a programmer, a spokesperson, and right-hand man to its founder.
Benedict Cumberbatch plays Assange as a white haired genius who in 2007 recruits Berg (Daniel Brühl) to help him run his underground whistleblower site with the goal of revealing the truth, by any means necessary. Spanning five years, the movie gives context to the stories we all know. Focusing on some of the most explosive leaks from the website, starting with...
- 9/6/2013
- Digital Spy
.I now much better understand that,. a gentleman exclaimed as we exited the Elgin Theatre following a premiere screening of Bill Condon.s The Fifth Estate. Despite his poor grammatical choices, this Toronto International Film Festival patron was proud to announce that he had a firm handle on the multi-faceted WikiLeaks scandal, and the role Web site founder Julian Assange played in what is described as the largest confidential information leak in world history. That makes one of us. Condon, himself, leaks hefty amounts of information on his audience as he tries to create All the Presidents Men for the Wikipedia generation. He recreates the early days of WikiLeaks, when Assange (Benedict Cumberbatch) and like-minded prop hacker Daniel Berg (Daniel Bruhl) created a cyber safe haven for corporate and political whistleblowers. The movie builds to the moral conflicts waged over the release of .the war documents. . thousands of classified papers...
- 9/6/2013
- cinemablend.com
King Of Devil’S Island
Review by LondonFilmFan
Stars: Stellan Skarsgård, Benjamin Helstad, Kristoffer Joner, Trond Nilssen, Morten Løvstad, Daniel Berg | Written by Dennis Magnusson, Eric Schmid | Directed by Marius Holst
Norwegian thriller King of Devil’s Island tells the true story of the country’s Bastøy Island, once utilised as a “home” for maladjusted young men. Directed by Marius Holst, the correctional institution’s harsh conditions are the focus of the film that depicts the level of brutality and oppression that pushed many to their breaking points. Perpetually bleak, but buoyed by stirring and strong performances from its predominately youthful cast, King of Devil’s Island is yet another solid Scandinavian import to hit the UK over the past few years.
Carrying the film is Benjamin Helstad as the rebellious Erling, or C-19 as he is branded by the institution. Little is revealed about Erling’s past as King...
Review by LondonFilmFan
Stars: Stellan Skarsgård, Benjamin Helstad, Kristoffer Joner, Trond Nilssen, Morten Løvstad, Daniel Berg | Written by Dennis Magnusson, Eric Schmid | Directed by Marius Holst
Norwegian thriller King of Devil’s Island tells the true story of the country’s Bastøy Island, once utilised as a “home” for maladjusted young men. Directed by Marius Holst, the correctional institution’s harsh conditions are the focus of the film that depicts the level of brutality and oppression that pushed many to their breaking points. Perpetually bleak, but buoyed by stirring and strong performances from its predominately youthful cast, King of Devil’s Island is yet another solid Scandinavian import to hit the UK over the past few years.
Carrying the film is Benjamin Helstad as the rebellious Erling, or C-19 as he is branded by the institution. Little is revealed about Erling’s past as King...
- 6/26/2012
- by Guest
- Nerdly
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