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The King is Alive (2000)

When a bus breaks down in the desert, the passengers decide to stage "King Lear." As the sand shifts...madness nears. 
A brilliant and yet cruel tale of the human condition by the words of Shakespeare's King Lear. The true nature of this film is in the relationship between the rawness of the desert and the fragility of the social being. Amazingly, the spirit of the desert witnesses the demise of a group of people who are facing death, acting Shakespeare to deceive it and ironically get deceived by fate itself at the end. The realistic notion, given by hand-held camera as well by the wonderful colors captured, will dive one's in the crucial themes of the movie: death, love and hope. 

Colour
98 minutes
1.33:1
English 2.0 Stereo
Optional Subtitles: Danish, Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish
Audio commentary by director Kristian Levring
Dogme bonus material (w/ play all option):
- ôThe Birth of Dogme 95ö -featurette (19:01) 
- ôMarketing Dogmeö -featurette (16:13) 
- ôThe Inheritance after Dogmeö -featurette (32:03) 
ôThe King is Alive in retrospectö (22:45) 
Trailer (2:06) 
DVD credits 

Thanks to mookah :) 
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