Film

King of Thieves

5.920031h 41m12+Drama Crime

Age rating: 12+
Director: Ivan Fíla
Year: 2003

Two amateur circus kids from a poor Ukrainian village, ten-year-old Barbu and his older sister Mimma, are sold to a circus artist called Caruso who promises them a career in the West.

Top cast

Lazar Ristovski

Caruso

Iakov Kultiasov

Barbu

Katharina Thalbach

Julie

Oktay Özdemir

Marcel

Birol Ünel

Birol

Imogen Kogge

Polizistin

Anna Thalbach

Julie

Paulus Manker

Kardinal

Imogen Kogge

Polizisti

Yasemin Buyuksapci

Bianca

Manfred Witt

Dimo

Viktor Bentsler

Barbus Vater

Axel Neumann

Pokerspieler

Motamedi

Ali

Lucia Adyova

Kinder bei Caruso

Petra Hačkova

Kinder bei Caruso

Directed by

Ivan Fíla

Written by

Ivan Fíla

Produced by

Rudolf Biermann