The Thief Lord (2006)

Directed by

Richard Claus

Genre

drama film, fantasy film

Country

Germany, United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 38m

Rated

6

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 195 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two young brothers run away to Venice to avoid being split up by a cruel aunt and uncle. They join a group of street kids led by a mysterious boy known as the Thief Lord.

adventurouswhimsicalwarmsuspensefulinnocentmysteriouslightheartedemotional

What happens

The Thief Lord (German: Herr der Diebe) is a 2006 German-British family drama film written and directed by Richard Claus and co-written by Daniel Musgrave, based on the 2000 novel of the same title, by German author Cornelia Funke. It was a joint production of Warner Bros. Pictures, Future Films Limited, Comet Film, and Thema Production and is distributed by Warner Bros. under their Family Entertainment label. The film follows two recently orphaned brothers, Bo (Jasper Harris) and Prosper (Aaron Johnson), dumped in the care of a cruel aunt and uncle, who escape their impending separation by running off to Venice. Hiding in the canals and alleyways of the city, the boys are befriended by a gang of young urchins and their enigmatic masked leader, the Thief Lord (Rollo Weeks). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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