De Brief voor de Koning (film)
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| De Brief voor de Koning | |
| Directed by | Pieter Verhoeff |
| Produced by | Armada Productions Eyeworks Egmond |
| Screenplay by | Maarten Lebens Pieter Verhoeff |
| Based on |
De brief voor de Koning by Tonke Dragt |
| Starring |
Yannick van de Velde Quinten Schram |
| Music by | Erwin Roodhardt |
| Cinematography | Jules van den Steenhoven |
| Edited by | Bart van den Broek |
| Distributed by | Benelux Film Distributors |
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110 minutes |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Language | Dutch |
| Budget | €7.5 million |
| Box office | $2.8 million |
The Letter for the King (Dutch: De Brief voor de Koning) is a Dutch adventure film of 2008 written by Maarten Lebens and Pieter Verhoeff and is directed by the latter.
The film is based on the 1962 book of the same name by Dutch writer Tonke Dragt. In 1963 the book won the Dutch award Best Youth Book of the Year; in 2005 it was named the Best Youth Book of the past 50 years. Over a million copies of the book have been sold to date.
The filming of The Letter for the King took place from November 2007 till early March 2008, on locations in Germany (Eisenach and Engelskirchen), Luxembourg (Vianden), Belgium and the Netherlands.
In the land of Dagonaut a medieval squire named Tiuri is on a last mission together with four other squires to spend their time inside the chapel without chatting, sleeping, or eating. This is their last test in order to become a knight. But suddenly a badly wounded knight knocks from the door looking for help. Tiuri abandon the rules and opens the door and the knight is asking him to deliver an important letter to king of Unauwen. The dying knight gives him a special ring as a proof that he was sent by Edwinem.
During his journey, he passes to the land of Grey Knights where bandits rove there. He looses his horse from the bandits and continue to his travel without it but keeps the Important thing, the special ring that was given to him by Edwinem.
In the Mistrinaut castle Tiuri is put in prison and is fighting with the so-called gray knights who suspect him for the murder of Edwinem. The maiden Lavinia saves him by convincing her father that Tiuri is innocent. Then, her father helps Tiuri on his mission by sending him some gray knights to accompany him towards on his next journey.
Tiuri met someone who is on pilgrimage without knowing that it is actually a red rider spy. But when the time that this red rider's life is in danger, Tiuri saves him. And because of this the red rider is in change of heart.
Tiuri goes to a hermit named Menaures. Menaures send his boy Piak as Tiuri's guide.
When the time that Tiuri and Piak is on a struggle with the letter which is threatens to be fall from the wrong hands, Tiuri opens the letter and memorise on what is written there and then after that he burns the letter so that no one can read the letter. He memorise the letter without knowing the meaning of the message because the message is written in different language. Piak helps him to remember it by making it into a song.
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