Koning Van Katoren
Buy Koning Van Katoren by Jan Terlouw, Daniel Hugo from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders. Koning van Katoren [Jan Terlouw] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. De 17-jarige Stach droomt er van koning van het land Katoren te. Koning van Katoren Poster. The seventeen year old Stach is faced with five impossible assignments he has to complete in order to become king. Things do not.
I loved the book and I love the movie. It's fun, it's modern, it takes the best parts from the story and it's refreshingly non-Hollywood. It's nice to see what the makers did with the book, they had to leave some of the challenges out but that does not feel like a miss. The country of Katoren has areas that are like Italy, like Austria and even like Arizona (with a Bijlmer like city in it!). The modern touch was fun and fitted well into the story. After all: Katoren is a fantasy country. They could have made it 100 pct animation, but instead it is our world, and then again not.
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Having read the book, the movie is easy to follow. Maybe this is less when you don't know the book. For me it was interesting to see how the challenges were worked out. The actors were also refreshing, like the mayor of Uikemene and his family. Recommended for everybody who has read the book!
This boy, Stach, has firmly resolved to become the new king of Katoren and he asks the six ministers what he must do in order to be considered for the role. The ministers, afraid of losing their splendid position at court, give the boy seven almost impossible tasks, which can be brought to a successful conclusion only by one who possesses kingly attributes such as wisdom, courage and self-sacrifice. The six ministers are convinced that Stach will fall at the first hurdle, but he turns out to have an amazing amount of persistence and ingenuity. Koning van Katoren (How To Become King, 1971) reads like a modern fairytale. The six ministers, with names that reflect their personalities, appear to have stepped right out of the enchanting world of the Brothers Grimm, but the seven tasks that they dream up for the young Stach are surprisingly similar to the problems of our modern society.
The situation in Smogg, for example, where a dragon is suffocating the inhabitants of the city with its poisonous breath, is not much different from the smogfilled cities of our own time. And circumstances in Ekumeni, where Stach has to bring twelve shambling churches together to form one stable church, seem even more relevant in these days of religious wars than when the book was first published. In a vivid, often humorous style, Terlouw describes how Stach is able to complete all of the tasks successfully and finally become king of Katoren.
The fairytale character of the story, combined with the plain, contemporary language, make Koning van Katoren a timeless classic. By Joukje Akveld.