By the age of thirty Chaim Nachman Bialik had already become the most famous poet in the Jewish world. Some 100,000 people attended his funeral in 1934. “King of the Jews” is a portrait of the most beloved Jew of his day. Combining special animation, a voice track by acclaimed actor Chaim Topol (Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof), rare archival footage, long-forgotten photographs, poems-songs by Bialik performed by stellar Israeli singer Ninet, and interviews with the foremost Bialik researchers in Israel and around the world, the film tells the story of the little boy from the shtetl, who became King of the Jews.
