"The Naked King" on VoD & DVD in stores
»Fascinating, sensual, clever and with breathtaking archive material.« (Rüdiger Suchsland, Telepolis) Andreas Hoessli's "The Naked King – 18 Fragments on Revolution" has earned great praise from film critics! After the Corona-caused online launch, exclusively in W-film Online Cinema, the grandiose film essay about revolution will soon be available in regular stores as an »Adventure of the Heart« – as VOD from 15 April 2021 and on DVD from 23 April 2021. Or for all fans of artistic documentaries directly via our W-film shop at shop.koenig.wfilm.de. There you can already rent the film as a stream and thereby also support our partner cinemas. We look forward to your support!
Film essay "The Naked King" about Revolution as an Adventure of the Heart
The world is in turmoil! Everywhere people are protesting for democratic freedom and human rights – but how does a protest become an all-transforming revolution? In his exciting film essay, director Andreas Hoessli traces precisely this question. He travels to the heart of the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran and the 1980 Solidarność movement in Poland. What was going on in the minds of the young women and men who took part in the revolutions back then? What was going on inside them when the revolution was crushed or, as in Iran, a religious authoritarian elite took power?
Director Andreas Hoessli was living in Poland at the time as a research fellow. There he met the important writer Ryszard Kapuściński, who also reported on the revolution in Iran as a reporter. Kapuscinski's notes form the starting point of the film narrative, in which Hoessli also discovers that he himself was under surveillance by the Polish secret service at the time and was even to be recruited for its machinations. Awarded the main prize at DOK.fest Munich and with the unforgettable voice of Bruno Ganz as narrator.