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King of Devil's Island : Kongen av Bastøy

DVD - 2011 DVD FLC-NOR King 1 On Shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 3 out of 5

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Benjamin Helstad, Kristoffer Joner, Stellan Skarsgard, Trond Nilssen.
Seventeen-year-old Erling is a rumored murderer and therefore sent to the Bastoy Boys Home correctional facility. Once there he clashes with the island facility's governor who believes manual labor, rigid discipline, and harsh punishment is the only way to turn these boys around. Refusing to accept the constant abuse, Erling leads the boys in a violent uprising that will bring them head to head with no less than the Norwegian Army.
DVD, NTSC, region 1, widescreen.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Great film, inspired, but not true to, actual events that happened there in 1915. submitted by Tassos on February 19, 2022, 12:56pm While the film was excellent from the point of view of entertainment, suspense, and all that, it fails miserably to accurately tell the story of the ACTUAL events that happened there in 1915. I have no clue why the director and the scriptwriter threw the ACTUAL HISTORY in the wastebasket and replaced it with this FAIRY TALE that serves their purposes and probably their IDEOLOGY.

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LANGUAGE OPTIONS
Norwegian dialogue; English subtitles.

PUBLISHED
[United States] : Film Movement, 2011.
Year Published: 2011
Description: 1 videodisc (ca. 115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Rated: Unrated
Format: DVD

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Helstad, Benjamin.
Joner, Kristoffer, 1972-
Skarsgård, Stellan.
Nilssen, Trond.
Christensen, Lars Saabye, 1953-
Magnusson, Dennis.
Holst, Marius, 1965-
Film Movement (Firm)
4 1/2 Film (Firm)
Mact Productions.
St. Paul Film (Firm)
Opus Film (Firm)

SUBJECTS
Prisons -- Drama.
Riots -- Drama.
Norwegian language materials.
Feature films.
Horror films.
Fiction films.