S. Korean film ‘The Throne’ wins Best Film at Tallinn fest

The Throne

“The Throne,” also known as “Sado” in South Korea, was awarded Best Film at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival in Estonia last week.

The $10,600 prize will be donated back to Black Nights by Director Lee Joon-ik and producer Tiger Pictures to help it “become a new European hub to create cinematic joy and fun,” according to Screen Daily.

The film also won Best Music at Tallinn.

Released in September and starring top actors Song Kang-ho and Yoo Ah-in, “The Throne” was one of the biggest box office hits of the year in South Korea and chosen as the country’s 2015 Oscar submission.

The pic is based on a popular historical story about a king who sentences his son, Crown Prince Sado, to death by starvation inside a rice chest.

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