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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.
- Publication Order of Anthologies
- Cornelia Funke Books
- Personal Life
- On Writing
- Awards
Authors have to be masters of their art and as such ought to create well-observed characters and the details surrounding them. Authors are very inspiring for various reasons. Authors are the role models of the society and as such they are imperative. In them, we find something to aspire for and someone to look. They motivate us to do great work. To...
Despite her unmistakable success in the whole of Germany, it was only in the year 2002 when her works started to translate to English. The, first of all, her books to translate into English was Herr der Diebe in the year 2002. The book was released as The Thief Lord by Scholastic making it to the Bestsellers list in the New York Times at the number...
Cornelia Funke had an eye to having a family and as such, in 1981, she married Rolf Frahm. The two had to wait until eight years later to be blessed with their first child. In the year 1989, they were blessed with a daughter, Anna and a son, Ben, would be coming five years later in the year 1994. For 24 years, the family lived in Hamburg, and in th...
Funke emphasizes that the first crucial starting point of an excellent book is an idea, which comes from nowhere and everywhere. In most of her books, she finds children being in very stressful situations as seen in The Thief Lord. For aspiring authors, Funke challenges them to read more than they do now and be curious. In her literature, she deals...
Cornelia Funke has many awards with her. In the year 2005, she was voted to the Time magazine’s list of the top 100 most influential people in the same year. A year later, she followed this award with her another one in the Chapter Book category. This award was the Sakura Medal by the International Students of Japan as a result of her successful bo...
The Thief Lord: Directed by Richard Claus. With Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jasper Harris, Carole Boyd, Bob Goody. After their mother dies, two boys flee their mean aunt and head for Venice, Italy, where they meet Scipio, the mysterious "Thief Lord."
- (6.3K)
- Adventure, Drama, Family
- Richard Claus
- 2006-03-14
A sequel, Dragon Rider: The Griffin's Feather, was published over a decade later, in 2017, [16] and a feature film adaptation of the same name was released in 2020. [17] Funke found further acclaim Inkheart (2003), which won the 2004 BookSense Book of the Year Award for Children's Literature. [18]
The Thief Lord follows the story of two brothers, Prosper and Bo, who run away to Venice after their mother's death. They are taken in by a group of orphans who live in an abandoned movie theater, called the Stella, and are led by a boy named Scipio, who calls himself the Thief Lord.
- Oliver Latsch
- 5 min
Jan 1, 2001 · Cornelia Funke. Two orphaned children are on the run, hiding among the crumbling canals and misty alleyways of the city of Venice. Befriended by a gang of street children and their mysterious leader, the Thief Lord, they shelter in an old, disused cinema.
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In late 2015, Cornelia Funke divulged details on a sequel to Dragon Rider, titled A Griffin's Feather. The sequel would be set two years following the first book, with Ben living with the Greenblooms at a creature refuge founded in Norway. [7]
