Completed - ENGLISH - Drama, Comedy - 108 minutes
Stephen Frears’ latest retells the true story of an amateur historian (Sally Hawkins) battling skepticism and bureaucracy in a quest to locate the final resting place of King Richard III.
Year of production : 2021 Director(s) : Stephen FREARS Writer(s) : Steve COOGAN, Jeff POPE Producer(s) : Christine LANGAN, Dan WINCH
In 2012, having been lost for over 500 years, the remains of King Richard III were discovered beneath a carpark in Leicester.The search had been orchestrated by an Edinburgh housewife, Philippa Langley, and the discovery was the culmination of years of obsessive research, during which she had faced the incomprehension of friends and family and the scepticism of experts and academics. THE LOST KING is the life-affirming true story of a woman who refused to be ignored, dismissed and overlooked, who took on the country’s most eminent historians and forced them to think again about one of the most infamous kings in England’s history.
Country(ies) : UNITED KINGDOM
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