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THE BAREFOOT EMPEROR

By Jessica WOODWORTH, Peter BROSENS

LUMIÈRE (GHENT) - as DISTR Theatrical, DVD-video,

Drama - Post-Production 2019

- Year of production
- 2019
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy
- Countries
- BELGIUM, NETHERLANDS, CROATIA, BULGARIA
- Languages
- ENGLISH, DUTCH, FRENCH, GERMAN
- Director(s)
- Jessica WOODWORTH, Peter BROSENS
- Cast
- Peter VAN DEN BEGIN, Lucie DEBAY, Titus DE VOOGDT, Bruno GEORIS, Géraldine CHAPLIN, Udo KIER
- Producer(s)
- Peter BROSENS (Bo Films), Jessica WOODWORTH (Bo Films), Frans VAN GESTEL (Topkapi Films), Arnold HESLENFELD (Topkapi Films), Laurette SCHILLINGS (Topkapi Films), Boris T. MATIC (Propeler Film), Lana MATIC (Propeler Film), Stefan KITANOV (Art Fest), Mira STALEVA (Art Fest), Marc-Henri WAJNBERG (Wajnbrosse Productions)
- Synopsis
- On his way home from a state visit to Istanbul, the King of the Belgians suffers a gunshot wound to the ear during an unfortunate incident in Sarajevo. A few days later, he wakes up in a sanatorium on a Croatian island, once Tito’s renowned summer residence. His entourage tries in vain to protect him from the news that the recent implosion of their kingdom sparked the collapse of the EU. The fragile King wants to return home at once, but instead he is condemned to a strict regime of rehabilitation by the authoritarian sanatorium director. The King sets his entourage scrambling for a means to flee. A delegation arrives from Vienna headed by the imposing Dr. Ilse von Stroheim, the architect of a nationalist ‘Nova Europa’. She announces the thunderous news that the last King of the Belgians will become the first Emperor of this new Europe. The King, fed up with others determining his destiny, decides to take matters into his own hands.