One Night with the King (2006)

Directed by

Michael O. Sajbel

Genre

romance film

Country

India, United States

Runtime

2h 03m

Rated

PG

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 74 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Jewish woman named Esther becomes queen of Persia and must use her position to plead with the king to protect her people from a planned massacre. The film follows her journey from a hidden past to a royal court where she risks her life to speak up.

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What happens

One Night with the King is a 2006 American epic film produced by Matt Crouch and Laurie Crouch of Gener8Xion Entertainment, directed by Michael O. Sajbel, and starring Peter O'Toole, Tiffany Dupont, John Rhys-Davies, and Luke Goss. The screenplay by Stephan Blinn is based on Tommy Tenney and Mark Andrew Olsen's novel Hadassah: One Night with the King. One Night with the King is a dramatization of the Biblical story of Esther, who risked her life by approaching the King of Persia to request that he save the Jewish people. It received a 2007 CAMIE Award for Goss' portrayal of King Xerxes. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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