Review: Kuninkaan puhe

K-k-k-king

More than 200,000 Finns have seen in the Oscar-winning film The King’s Speech how the future King George VI of Britain fights for his credibility against his stuttering with the help of a peculiar speech therapist. You can visit the Helsinki City Theatre to compare how director Kari Heiskanen, King Carl-Kristian Rundman, therapist Pertti Sveholm and the rest of the company are doing.

Well – the element is different, the resources are small, the courtly atmosphere is more alien to us, but the drama, the rumble of the approaching war, the extraordinary friendship and sarcastic humour are in order. The king deserves empathy and respect.