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Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
- Idris Elba as Djinn
- Tilda Swinton as Alithea Binnie
- Aamito Lagum as The Queen of Sheba
- Matteo Bocelli as Prince Mustafa
- Kaan Guldur as Murad IV
Idris Elbaplays the Djinn. In the film, the Djinn is looking to grant Binnie three wishes in exchange for his freedom. As the story progresses, the Djinn and Binnie begin to share a romantic kinship, which deepens their relationship as well as the complexity of the Djinn's desire to be freed. The more the Djinn opens up to Binnie over the course of...
The character of Alithea Binnie is played by Tilda Swinton. Binnie is a narratologist, a person who studies narrative and narrative structure in stories and literature. Binnie is quite content with life, exactly the opposite of someone who would want three wishes at all. As a narratologist, Binnie is also an expert at deciphering and predicting nar...
Aamito Lagum plays The Queen of Sheba, a figure first referenced in the Hebrew Bible. In the original text of the story, the Queen brings a caravan of valuable gifts to King Solomon. According to Miller, there is no historical record of the Queen of Sheba. In his words, "she's in mythology more than she is in history." That allowed Miller and co-wr...
Prince Mustafa is played byMatteo Bocelli. Prince Mustafa is a recurring "cast member" of the Djinn's stories that Alithea visualizes in her mind. Similar to the Queen of Sheba, the Djinn has dealings with Prince Mustafa that have very personal ties to his past. The Prince is known in the Djinn's particular telling of his story to ride a white hors...
Kaan Guldur plays Murad IV, who was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire for decades. As an adult, Murad was known for his brutality and authoritarian nature. He was ruthless towards those he fought and relentlessly cold to those who served under him. In Three Thousand Years of Longing, he is first introduced as a child who has yet to become the Sultan...
Aug 26, 2022 · Three Thousand Years of Longing: Directed by George Miller. With Tilda Swinton, Idris Elba, Erdil Yasaroglu, Sarah Houbolt. A lonely scholar, on a trip to Istanbul, discovers a Djinn who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom.
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- Drama, Fantasy, Romance
- George Miller
- 2022-08-26
Aug 26, 2022 · Three Thousand Years of Longing is director George Miller's latest movie. Here is your complete guide to who's who in the cast of the fantasy drama George Miller's back with a great cast.
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A solitary scholar discovers an ancient bottle while on a trip to Istanbul and unleashes a djinn who offers her three wishes. Filled with reluctance, she is unable to come up with one, so the djinn tries to inspire her with his stories.
Three Thousand Years of Longing is a 2022 fantasy romantic drama film directed and produced by George Miller. Written by Miller and Augusta Gore, it is based on the 1994 short story " The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye " by A. S. Byatt and follows a djinn ( Idris Elba ) who is unleashed from a bottle by a professor ( Tilda Swinton ) and tells ...
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