Scipio needs to go away for a few days so he asks the gang to stake out the mansion where the wing is kept. While hiding in a mask shop, Scipio comes up with a plan to help the others escape. Prosper and the others return and chase him off.
While they are talking Bo accidentally lets slip that he lives in an abandoned movie theatre. While there Bo meets Victor Getz, who befriends him. While Scipio, Prosper and Mosca are preoccupied with the conte Bo, Hornet and Riccio are forced to wait outside. The conte asks them to steal a wooden wing, a fragment from the long lost merry go round of the merciful sisters, for it he would pay fifty thousand euros. However he only let's Prosper and Mosca come to meet the client in person. Riccio tells Scipio about Barbarossa's customer and he decides to take the job.Īfter being persuaded by the others Scipio takes all of them with him to go and see the client, a mysterious man known only as the Conte ( Geoffrey Hutchings).
However, he is distracted by a friend, Ida Spavento ( Caroline Goodall), and loses the boys.īack at the theatre, the children celebrate Prosper's success. The inspector wanders across Prosper and Riccio in front of a pastry shop and chases the boys when they run away. Meanwhile, the boys' aunt and uncle, Esther and Max Hartlieb ( Carole Boyd and Bob Goody), have traveled to Venice in order to find their nephews and entreated the help of Victor Getz ( Jim Carter). Barbarossa tells Riccio and Prosper there is a client who needs something stolen and is willing to pay big money for it.
Bo brags that Prosper "is great at selling things" and Prosper ends up getting Barbarossa to quintuple his asking price. Unfortunately, Barbarossa - the sleazy antique dealer the children have to sell their stolen goods to - always cheats the children. They steal from stores and Venice's wealthy tourists, but the majority of their money comes from Scipio, who goes on mysterious raids and always brings back treasures. The Stella is also home to three orphaned children Scipio has rescued: Hornet ( Alice Connor), Riccio ( George MacKay) and Mosca (Lathaniel Dyer). The Thief Lord, a mask-wearing teenager whose name is Scipio, invites the boys to come with him to his hideout, an abandoned movie theatre called the Stella. The boys are nearly caught and lose the rest of their food, but are rescued by the mysterious Thief Lord ( Rollo Weeks). Bo becomes ill and Prosper is forced to resort to stealing cough medicine from a pharmacy. Once in Venice, the boys live on the streets, and the money Prosper brought quickly runs out. However, before they can separate the two boys Prosper takes Bo to Venice, the magical city about which their mother often told stories. She plans to send twelve-year-old Prosper (Aaron Johnson) away to boarding school. When Prosper and Boniface's parents die, their aunt Esther attempts to adopt the younger brother, an adorable five-year-old who eventually turns six as the movie progresses, named Bo ( Jasper Harris). 6.1 Differences between the 2000 children's novel book and the film.However, a greater threat to the children is something from a forgotten past: a beautiful magical treasure that can change the age of anyone who rides it. From their home base of an old cinema theater, the children steal from the rich to support themselves and soon capture the interest of a bumbling detective. Hiding in the canals and alleyways of the city, the boys are befriended by a gang of young urchins and their enigmatic masked leader, the Thief Lord ( Rollo Weeks). The tale follows two recently orphaned brothers, Bo ( Jasper Harris) and Prosper ( Aaron Johnson), dumped in the care of a cruel aunt and uncle, who escape their impending separation by running off to Venice. The screenplay was written by Richard Claus and Daniel Musgrave, based on the novel of the same title, by German author Cornelia Funke.
It was nominated for the 2006 World Soundtrack Awards, with Original Music by The DVD was released on March 14, 2006, and the one disc-edition includes a theatrical trailer that ran in theaters in Europe and Mosca's cartoon from the film by itself. The film is distributed by Warner Brothers. Entertainment, Inc., Future Films Limited, Comet Film, and Thema Production. The Thief Lord is a 2006 British-German family film directed by Richard Claus.