The read
Critics rate it 18 points higher than audiences do. It runs a compact 1h 29m.
Synopsis
Djata is a care-free 12-year-old growing up in a brutal dictatorship shut off from the outside world. When the government imprisons his father, Peter, and Djata and his mother Hannah are labeled traitors, the boy will not rest until he sees his father again.
Ratings
IMDb5.5/10
Rotten Tomatoes73%
Critics rate it 18 points higher than audiences do.
47 audience votes
Key crew
- Alex HelfrechtDirector
- Jörg TittelDirector
- Jörg TittelScreenplay
- Alex HelfrechtScreenplay
- Joanna BruzdowiczOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Lorenzo AllchurchDjata
- Agyness DeynHannah
- Fiona ShawKathrin Fitz
- Ross PartridgePeter
- Jonathan PryceColonel Fitz
- Greta ScacchiGeneral Meade
- Ólafur Darri ÓlafssonPickaxe
- Clare-Hope AshiteyGaby
- Olivia WilliamsSophia (voice)
- Vilmos HeimFrunza Boy