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A Prayer Before Dawn

Synopsis

In Klong Prem, there are 10 rules. If you break them, you will almost certainly die. If you don’t break them, you will definitely die. This is the true story of Billy Moore — jailed in one of the world’s toughest prisons, Klong Prem, the notorious 'Bangkok Hilton'. Refusing to die there, Billy becomes a student of the lethal art of Muay Thai Boxing and in the process finds a brotherhood that will help guide him on an incredible journey to redemption.
Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2017 - Midnight Screenings - World premiere
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2017
Official Selection Rotterdam International Film Festival 2018

Details

Year
2017
Type of project
Features
Running time
116 mins
Director
Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire
Producer
Rita Dagher, Roy Boulter, Sol Papdopoulos, Nicholas Simon
Executive Producer
James Schamus, Jennifer Dong, Woody Mu, Peter Watson
Editor
Marc Boucrot
Screenwriter
Jonathan Hirschbein (screenplay), Nick Saltrese (screenwriter)
Director of Photography
David Ungaro
Production Designer
Lek Chaiyan Chunsuttiwat
Principal cast
Joe Cole, Vithaya Pansringarm, Pornchanok Mabklang, Panya Yimmumphai, Somluck Kamsing, Chaloemporn Sawatsuk, Komsan Polsan, Sakda Niamhom, Sura Srimalai, Billy Moore

Genre

Action

Categories

Fiction

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

France, UK coproduction

A Senorita Films (FR), Hurricane Films (UK), Meridian Entertainment (CN) production in association with Indochina Productions (KH)

Hurricane Films

13 Hope Street
Liverpool
L1 9BQ

Sales Company

HanWay Films

24 Hanway Street
London
W1T 1UH

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