A Prayer Before Dawn (2017)

Directed by

Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire

Genre

drama film, boxing film

Country

France, United States, People's Republic of China, United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 57m

Rated

R

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 652 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young boxer gets sent to a brutal Thai prison where he struggles to survive. He turns to Muay Thai fighting as a way to endure the violence and find a path to freedom.

intenserawharrowingimmersivegrittyvisceralclaustrophobicrelentless

What happens

A Prayer Before Dawn is a 2017 biographical prison drama film directed by Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire and written by Jonathan Hirschbein and Nick Saltrese. The film stars Joe Cole and is based on the book A Prayer Before Dawn: My Nightmare in Thailand's Prisons by Billy Moore. A Prayer Before Dawn had its world premiere at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival on 19 May, and was released in the United Kingdom on 20 July 2018, by Altitude, and in the United States on 10 August 2018, by A24. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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