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THE BAREFOOT EMPEROR

By Jessica WOODWORTH, Peter BROSENS

SOFIA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL / ART FEST LTD. - as DISTR Theatrical, TV, BULGARIA

Drama - Completed 2019

How the last King of the Belgians becomes the first Emperor of Europe.

Festivals
& Awards

Toronto - TIFF 2019

Contemporary World Cinema

Warsaw FF 2019

Rotterdam IFF 2020

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- Year of production
- 2019
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy
- Countries
- BELGIUM, NETHERLANDS, CROATIA, BULGARIA
- Languages
- ENGLISH, DUTCH, FRENCH, GERMAN
- Duration
- 99 mn
- 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
- Nicolas III, King of the Belgians, suffers a gunshot wound to the ear during an unfortunate incident in Sarajevo. He wakes up in a sanatorium on a Croatian island that once was Tito’s renowned summer residence. The King’s entourage tries in vain to protect him from the news that the recent implosion of their kingdom has sparked the collapse of the European Union. The fragile King demands to return home at once, but instead he is condemned to a strict regime of rest and rehabilitation by the authoritarian sanatorium director, Dr. Otto Kroll. A delegation from Vienna arrives headed by the distinguished Dr. Ilse von Stroheim, architect of a nationalist Nova Europa. She bears the thunderous news that the last King of the Belgians will become the first Emperor of Europe. The King, fed up with others determining his destiny, decides to take matters into his own hands.

THE BAREFOOT EMPEROR

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