De Brief voor de Koning (film)

The Letter for the King

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De Brief voor de Koning
Directed by Pieter Verhoeff
Produced by Armada Productions
Eyeworks Egmond
Screenplay by Maarten Lebens
Pieter Verhoeff
Based on De brief voor de Koning
by Tonke Dragt
Starring Yannick van de Velde
Quinten Schram
Music by Erwin Roodhardt
Cinematography Jules van den Steenhoven
Edited by Bart van den Broek
Distributed by Benelux Film Distributors
Release dates
  • 16 July 2008 (2008-07-16) (Netherlands)
  • 11 October 2009 (2009-10-11) (United Kingdom)
Running time
 110 minutes
Country Netherlands
Language Dutch
Budget €7.5 million[1]
Box office $2.8 million[2]

The Letter for the King (Dutch: De Brief voor de Koning) is a Dutch adventure film of 2008 written by Maarten Lebens and Pieter Verhoeff and is directed by Pieter Verhoeff.[3][4][5]

The film is based on the book of the same name from Dutch writer Tonke Dragt which she wrote in 1962 and was named in 1963 as the Best Youth Book of the Year. There are now sold more than a million copies, and the book in 2005 proclaimed the Best Youth Book of the past 50 years, which Tonke Dragt the Griffels of Griffels got handed.[3]

The filming of The Letter for the King where took place from November 2007 through early March 2008, this took place in Germany (Eisenach and Engelskirchen), Luxembourg (Vianden), Belgium and the Netherlands.[1]

Plot

In the land of Dagonaut where a medieval squire Tiuri, is on a last mission together with four other squires to spend their time inside the chapel without chatting, sleeping, or eating. This is their last test in order to become a knight. But suddenly a badly wounded knight knocks from the door looking for help. Tiuri abandon the rules and opens the door and the knight is asking him to deliver an important letter to king of Unauwen. The dying knight gives him a special ring as a proof that he was sent by Edwinem.

During his journey, he passes to the land of Grey Knights where bandits rove there. He looses his horse from the bandits and continue to his travel without it but keeps the Important thing, the special ring that was given to him by Edwinem.

In the Mistrinaut castle Tiuri is put in prison and is fighting with the so-called gray knights who suspect him for the murder of Edwinem. The maiden Lavinia saves him by convincing her father that Tiuri is innocent. Then, her father helps Tiuri on his mission by sending him some gray knights to accompany him towards on his next journey.

Tiuri met someone who is on pilgrimage without knowing that it is actually a red rider spy. But when the time that this red rider's life is in danger, Tiuri saves him. And because of this the red rider is in change of heart.

Tiuri goes to a hermit named Menaures. Menaures send his boy Piak as Tiuri's guide.

When the time that Tiuri and Piak is on a struggle with the letter which is threatens to be fall from the wrong hands, Tiuri opens the letter and memorise on what is written there and then after that he burns the letter so that no one can read the letter. He memorise the letter without knowing the meaning of the message because the message is written in different language. Piak helps him to remember it by making it into a song.

They have to cross the bridge but before that they must have to pay the toll in order to pass that bridge. They don't have the money to pay for that toll. So they make a way by passing the side of the bridge. Piak is accidentally falls from the Rainbow river, but Tiuri saves him from drowning. They are caught by the tolheer and they explain to the tolheer on what is their mission. The special ring helps their explanation by showing it to the operatives.

Tiuri fortunately completed his mission. The content of the letter is that the country is in danger because the enemy Eviellan with his red riders has a bad plan for the country. Tiuri is honoured by the king for making the message to be successfully brought to him.

Cast

Production notes

Awards

The film was awarded as the best film at the thirteenth International Film Festival for Children and Young Audience in both the international jury and the youth jury in October 2008. In the same month and in the same year, the film was awarded in a German town Marburg on the Final Cut Film Festival.[1] The film also received the Golden Film, awarded by the Netherlands Film Festival and the Netherlands Film Fund on 30 July 2008 for reaching 100,000 tickets sold.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "brief voor de koning, De (alen)" [Letter for the King, The] (in Dutch). FilmTotaal.nl. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
  2. ↑ "Foreign Movies: De Brief voor de koning (2008)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 30 September 2016.
  3. 1 2 "De brief voor de koning". Nederlands Film Festival. Retrieved 21 February 2016.
  4. ↑ "THE LETTER FOR THE KING". Heimatfilm. Retrieved 21 February 2016.
  5. ↑ "The Letter for the King (De Brief voor de koning)". Cineuropa. Retrieved 21 February 2016.
  6. ↑ "Gouden Film voor De brief voor de koning" (in Dutch). Netherlands Film Festival. 30 July 2008. Archived from the original on 22 August 2008. Retrieved 7 August 2016.

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