Project Detail

I Am David

Name: I Am David
Director: Paul Feig
Genre: Drama
Released: 2003
Duration: 95 mins

Synopsis

Bulgaria 1952. 12 year-old David (Ben Tibber) escapes from the labour camp where he has lived most of his life. He races for freedom and stows away on a cargo ship bound for Italy.

Forced to deal with strangers for the first time in his life, David finds solace in the memory of his friend and mentor in the camp, Johannes (Jim Caviezel). He is given money for helping out some tourists and is able to buy food.

David comes across some children playing around an old shed. The shed catches fire with a little girl trapped inside and David rescues her with seconds to spare. Her grateful parents take David in but, unable to trust them, David runs away.

At the Swiss border, David meets an artist named Sophie (Joan Plowright). Sophie takes David to a bookshop where he sees a book that was written by a woman who lost her husband and son at the end of the war. He recognises the photo on the dust-jacket as his mother.

Urgent arrangements are made for David to fly to Denmark where, on the airport runway in Copenhagen he has an emotional reunion with his mother.

Details

Year: 2003
Type of project: Features
Running time: 95 mins
Format: 35mm
Director: Paul Feig
Producer: Davina Belling, Clive Parsons, Lauren Levine
Editor: Alan Strachan
Screenwriter: Paul Feig
Director of Photography: Roman Osin
Sound: Mark Binder
Composer: Stuart Copeland
Principal cast: Ben Tibber, Maria Bonnevie, James Caviezel, Joan Plowright

Genre

Drama

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Walden Media

10 East 40th St, 26th Floor
New York NY 10016, USA

T +1 212 689 5420

www.walden.com

Sales Company

Summit Entertainment

77 Dean Street
London W1D 3SH
UK

T+44 (0)20 7494 1724

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