Long Live the Queen (film)
- Tiba Tossijn: Sara de Waal
- Lisa de Rooy: Suzanna de Waal
- Pieter Lutz: Hendrik de Waal
- Monique van de Ven: White Queen
- Jack Wouterse: White King
- Derek de Lint: Bob Hooke
- Rudolf Lucieer: Teacher
- René Nijman: Victor
Long Live the Queen (Dutch Lang Leve de Koningin ) is a Dutch children's film from the year 1995 by Esmé Lammers with Tiba Tossijn in the lead role as Sara and Monique van de Ven as the white queen from the chess game. The film was the opening film at the Cinekidfestival 1995 and won in 1996 Gouden Kalf for best feature film. 1997 appeared a German dubbed version in two parts in KiKA.
Content
The eight -year-old Sara lives in a small town in the Netherlands with her single mother and her grandfather. From her father she only knows that he lives in South Africa. More wants her mother to tell her until Sara is 16. At school, she is so poor that their displacement is at risk because they prefer looks dreamily out the window during class. Your class teacher agreed with her mother about tutoring. From her pocket money buys Sara a special chess in the Father of her school friend Victor store. Victor teaches her chess game by he reads her the story, as the White Queen invented the game of chess to keep the white king from warfare. This story upset at Sara's imagination, so that it becomes part of the action in the realm of the white queen and otherwise communicate with the chess pieces. Due to an agreement with the White Queen for the first audition Sara escapes from the tutoring. In this audition Sara has successfully managed the black pawns and wins as against the white king. This is still excited about the new game. In simultaneous chess tournament against their class teacher she wins with the support of the White Queen as only one from her class. With this victory they can participate in a simultaneous chess tournament against the Grand Master Bob Hooke from South Africa, from which it suspects that he is her father.
Book
Esmé Lammers also wrote the children's book of the same name, the German -language edition was published by Free Spirit lives.