A Hologram for the King
World Premiere

A Hologram for the King

Spotlight
| USA, Germany | 99 MINUTES | English
Drama
Tom Hanks stars as Alan Clay, a struggling American businessman who travels to Saudi Arabia in hopes of landing a career-saving IT contract by selling a new technology to the king for a massive, inexplicable development in the middle of nowhere. Upon arrival, he finds only labyrinthine bureaucracy and endless desert. As he awaits the arrival of the perpetually absent monarch, Clay gets to know his local driver, sneaks some contraband hooch with a European diplomat, and begins to monitor a suspicious growth on his back with increasing alarm.

Tom Tykwer’s wryly comic adaptation of Dave Eggers’ novel is a darkly funny, fish out of water story that points to bigger ideas about America’s outdated sense of its own importance in the global marketplace, and the dashed hopes and desperation of American business abroad. A thoroughly enjoyable allegory, A Hologram for a King is simultaneously subtle and surreal, drolly funny, and wistfully sad.

—Cara Cusumano

Cast & Credits
Directed by
Tom Tykwer
Tom Tykwer is one of the most influential and renowned contemporary German filmmakers. His international hit Run Lola Run (1999) was followed by such stylistically challenging movies as Cloud Atlas (2012, co-directed with the Wachowskis). Tykwer also works as a soundtrack composer on most of his films.
Director
Tom Tykwer
Screenwriter
Tom Tykwer
Producer
Uwe Schott, Stefan Arndt, Arcadiy Golubovich, Tim O'Hair, Gary Goetzman
Editor
Alexander Berner
Cinematographer
Frank Griebe
Executive Producer
Steven Shareshian, Gaston Pavlovich, Claudia Bluemhuber, Irene Gall, Gero Bauknecht, Jim Seibel, Bill Johnson, Shervin Pishevar
Cast
Tom Hanks, Alexander Black, Sarita Choudhury, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Ben Whishaw, Tom Skerritt

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