Kingdom

The Kingdom

Directed by Julien Colonna. Starring Ghjuvanna Benedetti and Saveriu Santucci | Theatrical release (GER): Q4 2025 | F | 2024 | 108 Min. | Color | GER, original with German and English subtitles (French) | DCP-2K | 1,85:1 | 5.1 | FSK tba

Synopsis

Corsica, 1995. It’s Lesia’s first summer as a teenager. One day a man bursts into her life and takes her to an isolated villa where she finds her father, in hiding, surrounded by his clan. An underworld war erupts. The noose is tightening around them. Death strikes. Forced to go on the run, father and daughter will learn to face one another, to understand and love each other…

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Director Julien Colonna:

“The Kingdom is a coming-of-age story: through Lesia’s journey I want to show the self-sacrifice she has to make in order to be accepted by adults, to survive this omnipresent threat of death, to have the perseverance to love her father and to be loved in return. My co-writer Jeanne and I wanted to portray a sentinel child, mature, her wound hidden away, kind and courageous, reasonable but obstinate.”

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“The Kingdom ... feels like epic drama. It isn’t glamorous, but it does look glorious.”
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"Colonna gelingt es hervorragend, die Landschaften Korsikas einzufangen und uns gleichzeitig anhand einer Teenagerin zu zeigen, wie eine mafiöse Gruppe funktioniert. Eine sehr gute Rolle für Ghjuvanna Bennedetti ... Sie schafft es, sowohl die Neugier als auch die Coolness zu vermitteln, die man für das Überleben in dieser gewalttätigen Welt braucht."
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