A film by Julien Colonna
France 2024, 111 min
NRW-Premiere
Corsica, 1995: Lesia is experiencing her first summer as a teenager. But she is different: she is the daughter of a well-known mafia boss who has gone into hiding. After an attack, the clan is alarmed. The father fears the consequences of his own vendetta and wants to protect his daughter. So he has her brought to him. An escape begins, during which father and daughter learn to truly meet, understand and love each other for the first time.
The Kingdom is both an intimate portrait of a special father-daughter relationship and a precise depiction of conflicts, some of which continue to the present day and continue to characterise life on Corsica.
Le royaume – Director: Julien Colonna – Screenplay: Julien Colonna & Jeanne Herry – Cinematographer: Antoine Cormier – Editors: Albertine Lastera & Yann Malcor – Music: Audrey Ismael – With Ghjuvanna Benedetti, Saveriu Santucci, Anthony Morganti, Andrea Cossu, Thomas Bronzini and others. – German distributor: PROGRESS Filmverleih, progress.film
Julien Colonna
Director Julien Colonna is the son of alleged mafia boss Jean-Jé Colonna, who was killed in 2006. In his feature film debut, The Kingdom, Julien Colonna tells his own story from within the inner circle of organized crime. Julien Colonna is a screenwriter, director, and photographer. After completing his master’s degree in social sciences, he studied screenwriting and directed several short films. His film Confession (2015) was shown at numerous festivals and won many awards. His debut screenplay Equinoxes received the Télérama Coup de coeur Sopadin Award.
