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Director: Marius Holst
Cast: Stellan Skarsgård, Benjamin Helstad, Kristoffer Joner
Running Time: 116 minutes
Certificate: 12
Language: Norwegian with English subtitles
Extras: Just a brief trailer for the main feature.
Synopsis: It’s 1915 and young offender Erling is sent to a Norwegian reform school on Bastøy island. He soon finds himself locked in a struggle against an oppressive, abusive and cruel regime, with some explosive and tragic results.
Marius Holst’s award winning King Of Devil’S Island (2010) holds many similarities with Sleepers (1996) – the harrowing account of a group of New York boys sent to a young offender’s institute and sexually abused by corrupt warders. And like Sleepers, King Of Devils’ Island is based on a true account, making it all the more shocking (well, Sleepers is allegedly true).
Our protagonist Erling has been imprisoned for murder at Bastøy, an island stronghold just forty miles from Oslo. It’s reminiscent of »
- Claire Joanne Huxham
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