Drama · Adventure
I Am David
Believe in the power to change your destiny
A 12-year-old boy manages to flee a Communist concentration camp on his own, through sheer will and determination. All he has in his possession is a loaf of bread, a letter to deliver to someone in Denmark, and a compass to help get him there.
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Top Cast
Ben Tibber
David
Jim Caviezel
Johannes
Joan Plowright
Sophie
Hristo Shopov
The Man
Silvia De Santis
Elsa
Paco Reconti
Giovanni
Roberto Attias
Baker
Francesco De Vito
Roberto
Directed by
Paul Feig
Production
Walden Media
Summit Entertainment
Lions Gate FilmsReviews
Wuchak
6/108/14/2020
_**A boy flees the Iron Curtain for a new life in Western Europe**_ Escaping a concentration camp in 1952 Bulgaria, a cynical boy (Ben Tibber) stows away to Italy, traveling the peninsula to Switzerland on his way to Denmark. Will he find liberty and love or more distrust and hatred? Jim Caviezel plays a prisoner at the camp while Joan Plowright is on hand as a warm elderly woman. Based on Anne Holm’s novel “North to Freedom,” “I Am David” (2003) is an indie drama/adventure by Paul Feig (writer/director). The movie effectively reminds us that there was an Iron Curtain from 1945-1989 and that crimes against humanity were pretty much business-as-usual for Communistic governments in USSR and Eastern Bloc countries. The tone is realistic and low-key with a balance of cruelty, munda
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