A Prayer Before Dawn (2017)
2017 film by Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire
- Released
- May 2017
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States, France
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Boxing film
- Director
- Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire
- Screenplay
- Jonathan Hirschbein
- Producer
- Roy Boulter
- Music
- Nicolas Becker
- Starring
- Joe Cole
- Running time
- 117 minutes
- Production company
- HanWay Films, Canal+, Cine+
- Distributor
- A24, DirecTV Cinema, Altitude Film Distribution
- Set in
- Thailand
A Prayer Before Dawn is a 2017 biographical prison drama film directed by Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire and written by Jonathan Hirschbein and Nick Saltrese. The film stars Joe Cole and is based on the book A Prayer Before Dawn: My Nightmare in Thailand's Prisons by Billy Moore.
A Prayer Before Dawn had its world premiere at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival on 19 May, and was released in the United Kingdom on 20 July 2018, by Altitude, and in the United States on 10 August 2018, by A24.
Nominations
- IFFR audience award
External links
Facts from Wikidata Q29406165 (CC0); quoted introduction from English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Data retrieved 2026-10-22.
Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.