I Am David (2003)
Believe in the power to change your destiny
Director: Paul Feig · Writer: Paul Feig
A 12-year-old boy manages to flee a Communist concentration camp on his own, through sheer will and determination. All he has in his possession is a loaf of bread, a letter to deliver to someone in Denmark, and a compass to help get him there.
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Cast
Ben Tibber
David 
Jim Caviezel
Johannes 
Joan Plowright
Sophie 
Hristo Shopov
The Man 
Silvia De Santis
Elsa 
Paco Reconti
Giovanni 
Roberto Attias
Baker 
Francesco De Vito
Roberto 
Paul Feig
American Man 
Lucy Russell
American Woman 
Maria Bonnevie
David's Mother 
Viola Carinci
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_**A boy flees the Iron Curtain for a new life in Western Europe**_ Escaping a concentration camp in 1952 Bulgaria, a cynical boy (Ben Tibber) stows away to Italy, traveling the peninsula to Switzerland on his way to Denmark. Will he find liberty and love or more distrust and hatred? Jim Caviezel plays a prisoner at the camp while Joan Plowright is on hand as a warm elderly woman. Based on Anne Holm’s novel “North to Freedom,” “I Am David” (2003) is an indie drama/adventure by Paul Feig (writer/director). The movie effectively reminds us that there was an Iron Curtain from 1945-1989 and that crimes against humanity were pretty much business-as-usual for Communistic governments in USSR and Eastern Bloc countries. The tone is realistic and low-key with a balance of cruelty, mundaneness, tenderness and amusement. Don’t expect earth-shattering events. The human potent…
