
The Kings Surrender
Wir Waren Könige
Directed by
Germany
2014
107 min
- German
Drama
A police special forces team, a youth gang: two parallel worlds, traversed by electric tensions and magnetic bonds. Chance and a shy thirteen-year-old first bring these worlds in contact and then smash them together in a fight for survival. A gloomy and tense metropolitan noir, suspended between traces of Scorsese and references to Scandinavia’s take on the genre; it gives nobody a break and starkly depicts truth, justice, friendship and loyalty.
Awards
- Jury Prize for Best Narrative Feature - Austin FF
Festivals
Labels & Line Ups
Credits
- Cast
- Ronald Zehrfeld
- Misel Maticevic
- Mohamed Issa
- Hendrik Duryn
- Tilman Strass
- Oliver Konietzny
- Frederick Lau
- Torben Liebrecht
- Simon Werner
- Adrian Saidi
- Hassan Issa
- Katharina Heyer
- Screenplay
- Philipp Leinemann
- Cinematography
- Christian Stangassinger
- Editing
- Max Fey
- Jochen Retter
- Music
- Sebastian Fischer
- Production
- WALKER + WORM FILM GMBH & CO. KG
Press
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A superior, sprawling cops-and-crooks saga.

Philipp Leinemann
Germany
Philipp Leinemann began studying and directing in 2004 at Division III ( film and television acting) at the University of Television and Film Munich. His graduation film TRANSIT was awarded at the Munich FF 2010. Before he studied film he was a mechanical engineering student, working part time as a truck driver and made films as a hobby. His debut film TRANSIT reworks many of his experiences as a truck driver .