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King of Devil's Island (2010) A very straight forward, hard hitting, well acted account based on a true story of a boy's penal colony on a Norwegian Island early in the 20th Century. That says it all. It is what it is, and there is the almost inevitable rebel and leader among the boys against the sometimes evil, sometimes indifferent adults who ...
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 20, 2012. Blake Howard 2UE That Movie Show. King of Devil's Island is poetic story of friendship and adolescence in the bleak, cold and brutal 1915 Bastoy ...
Watch King of Devil's Island This true story of the infamous Bastøy Boys Home correctional facility in Norway, begins with the arrival of seventeen-year-old Erling, a rumored murderer. He immediately clashes with the island facility's governor, who believes manual labor, rigid discipline, and harsh punishment are the only methods that can turn the boys into honorable members of society ...
A teenager accused of murder is sent to an island reform school. After he uncovers a dark secret he foments an uprising against the school's cruel disciplinarians. Based on a true story. Rentals include 30 days to start watching this video and 48 hours to finish once started. A teenager accused of murder is sent to an island reform school.
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Dec 20, 2010 · Norwegian winter, 1915. On the island Bastøy, outside Oslo, a group of young boys aged 11 to 18, are held in an institution for delinquent youth, notorious for its sadistic regime. One day a new boy, Erling, arrives, determined to escape from the island. After a tragic incident, he ends up leading the boys in a violent uprising. When the boys manage to take over the island, 150 soldiers are ...
Shape and polish him. And if we don't find him. . . you'll stay here." — The Governor. King of Devil's Island ( Norwegian title: Kongen av Bastøy) is a 2010 film by Marius Holst, which dramatises the events surrounding a 1915 inmates' revolt at Bastøy Reform School, an island prison for teenage boys. It is Very Loosely Based on a True Story.
