Without the King
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 24 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 22, 2008
- Originally Released: 2007
- Label: First Run Features
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| Directed by | Michael Skolnik | |
| Subject: | King Mswati III |
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Rating: 3.5/5 --
Without the King transitions nicely from standard operating crisis report to a portrait of a hopeful political awakening.
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Los Angeles Times
Rating: 2.5/4 --
[An] intelligent but incomplete-feeling documentary.
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TV Guide
Rating: 4/6 --
Director Michael Skolnik gained extraordinary access to both Swaziland's royal family and its political underground, and delivers an unflinching portrait of a country where life expectancy is the shortest in the world.
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Time Out
Pashu straddles a particular and complicated divide in Without the King, Michael Skolnik's intriguing documentary about the last kingdom in Africa.
PopMatters
Rating: 4.5/5 --
Without the King, Michael Skolnik's subtly perceptive documentary, avoids a tone of first-world outrage; leaning more toward understanding than blame, the film examines a country forced to choose between tradition and survival.
New York Times
Rating: 2.5/4 --
Without the King is a fascinating documentary about a little-known African tyrant, King Mswati III of Swaziland, a country the size of New Jersey with a population of 1.1 million.
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New York Post
King fascinates on many levels as it ticks off intriguing sociological facts about this impoverished nation.
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Variety
Product Description:
This profile of Africa's last ruling monarch, the King of Swaziland, contrasts the sharp divide between King Mswati III's luxurious life and the dire predicament of his people. Home to severe poverty, Swaziland suffers an uncontrolled AIDS epidemic and the lowest life-expectancy on Earth. As political unrest builds, WITHOUT THE KING captures the country as it erupts into revolution.
Product Description:
Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the Hot Docs International Documentary Festival, this acclaimed film tells an astonishing story of Africa's last absolute monarchy, the Kingdom of Swaziland. King Mswati III, a distant figure out of touch with his home and country, rules by decree and lives a life of luxury together with his 12 wives, while his subjects suffer from crushing poverty and the world's highest HIV infection rate. With unprecedented access, we meet headstrong first wife Queen LaMbikiza, eldest child and teen rapper, Princess Sikhanyiso, King Mswati himself, as well as many Swazi citizens who are plotting his downfall. Filmmaker Michael Skolnik captures the birth of a nation's revolution, and the dawning awareness of a young Swazi princess as she realizes the contrast between her impoverished country and her lavish lifestyle.
Source: First Run Features Home Video
Source: First Run Features Home Video
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- UPC: 720229913348
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