One Night with the King

  • Tiffany Dupont - Queen Esther
  • Luke Goss - King Xerxes
  • John Rhys -Davies - Mordechai
  • Omar Sharif - Memucan
  • James Callis - Haman
  • Jyoti Dogra - Queen Vashti
  • John Noble - Prince Admatha
  • Peter O'Toole - Samuel
  • Takesh Singh - Harbonah
  • Thomas Lister junior - Hegai

One Night with the King is an American- Indian feature film, from 2006, in which the story of Queen Esther is described.

Action

As in the biblical narrative in the Book of Esther Queen Vashti refuses, her husband, the Persian king Xerxes I, to obey, and is then banished from court. Xerxes then searches in the Persian Empire after a woman who is to take place as Queen Vashti. He finds them in the orphan Hadassa, which is brought up by her uncle, Mordecai. Hadassa, the fears, however, to be discriminated against as a Jew, called from now on acetate. In the palace, she learns that Haman, the chief eunuch of the king, is planning to exterminate all Jews in the kingdom. With her ​​charm, it is possible to uncover the plan. To commemorate this event, the Jews still celebrate every year the festival of Purim.

Production background

One Night with the King is after The Sword of Persia (1960), Greatest Heroes of the Bible ( 1978) and The Bible - Esther (1999), only the fourth sound film, which deals with the Old Testament story of Queen Esther.

The film, which was shot on location in Jodhpur ( India) and the USA ( Dallas, Texas), ran on 13 October 2006 in the U.S. in theaters on. In Germany and Austria, the film did not begin until Easter 2007.

The film, which was shot with a relatively small budget of $ 20 million, grossed on the opening weekend a $ 4,106,862.

The main roles can be Omar Sharif and Peter O'Toole as well as the two from The Lord of the Rings -known actor John Rhys -Davies and John Noble see.

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