A Tale of a Kingdom

A Tale of a Kingdom is a 2004 computer-animated-musical-dramedy-fantasy film produced by MacNamara-Pierre Pictures and distributed by Skyes Distribution. the 18th film produced by MacNamara-Pierre, it was directed by Ricardo Ayala and Karl Pouliot, produced by Klemens Grün and Alexei Laliashvli, with a soundtrack produced by Kurdish Doman Çêker. The screenplay was written by Greyson Fisher and Abdul Hai al-Amin, who also wrote the film's story along with Brazilian Jorge Caetano. The film stars Mya Cole, Isabelle Murphy, Jagger Booth, Billy Duffy, Truman Mcpherson, Trevon Rose, Lucas Campbell, Albert Vaughan, Frankie Brown, Kristen Cox, Lauren Miller, Benson Thatcher. A Tale of a Kingdom follows Princess Olyra (Mya Cole), who as a baby witnesses the murder of her mother, Queen Yussa (Lauren Miller) and her father, King Nahei (Benson Tatcher), architected and executed by her aunt, Princess Esra (Kristen Cox), Esra tries to kill the baby but is prevented by the religious leader of the kingdom, Askadeu (Lucas Campbell), the now queen then decides that the religious man finds a way to keep the girl away from the kingdom for her whole life, he then puts the girl in a small basket where there were some fruits, and places her to be carried away by the current the river, but she is lucky and is adopted by a family of peasants (Trevon Rosen and Isabelle Murphy). When she grows up, her adoptive parents decide to tell the truth to the girl, and present the basket to Olyra, and after that she leaves to discover that she is the pretender to the throne that her aunt usurped her, Along the way, she meets three companions: Yshykuce (Elizabeth Brewer), Typachu (Frankie Brown) and Cishe (Truman Mcpherson).

A Tale of a Kingdom premiered at the in  on February 27, 2004, and was released in USA on March 19, 2004, for a 3-month theatrical run. It was also released on DVD, later also being released on HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc. The film grossed $1.673 billion worldwide against a budget of $102 million, being the highest-grossing film of 2004. the film received critical acclaim for its realistic 3D animation, voice acting, soundtrack and storyline, reviews likening the film to old ballads of the Middle Ages. The film was nominated for 6 awards at the 77th Academy Awards, winning 5 awards, as well as numerous other awards.

The film's soundtrack became a phenomenon at the time, reaching number one on the and other music charts around the world; the two most successful songs were "Somebody to Be Mine" and "Usurped Kingdom", the first was at the top of the  for 5 consecutive weeks

Plot
The Kingdom of Eskivina is led by Queen Yussa, who together with her husband, King Nahei, has a female daughter. This daughter will be the future occupant of the throne of the kingdom, which makes her infertile aunt Esra furious, since for years she tried to get pregnant to take advantage of her sister, and make her daughter succeed her on the throne. Esra then decides to create a plan to kill her sister, her brother-in-law and her niece and thus becomes the next and unquestioned queen. Esra gathers a huge number of low-ranking military conspirators and promises that if the coup is successful, everyone will be promoted, and under this small militia, she places the knight Alashamu as commander of the troop, after immense planning, the coup is executed, and Yussa and Nahei are overthrown from the throne, Yussa tries to save her daughter but is killed by her own sister, and even then she takes the baby, and approaches a river, where she tries to drown her there, but when she goes to throw the girl in the river, Askadeu, healer and religious leader of the kingdom, prevents and begs the new queen to have mercy on the child, he then asks Esra to give the child to him, she gives in but orders the religious to make that baby disappear from there.

Askadeu then provides a basket where he puts the baby, puts a small pillow and a sheet to snuggle the child, and throws the baby into the river and watches the basket be carried away by the current, having faith that one day it will return or that at least be adopted by a kind hearted family. the basket carrying Olyra ends up hitting a rock, and this prevents the basket from continuing to navigate, the baby then starts to cry, the child's cries are then heard by Yshykuce, a 9 year old girl who, when looking at where the he hears cries, runs to warn his parents, Oshua and Freyna, who analyze the situation, and find a note inside the basket written by Askadeu that asks that if someone finds Olyra, they take care of her. The couple of peasants then take the basket and take it into the house, where they breastfeed the child with milk and give her some baby food. From there, the film advances in time, Olyra is now a young adult who is 20 years old, and helps her adoptive parents in the agricultural work alongside her adopted sister Yshykuce, the works have made the young woman, who still does not know that she inherits the throne of the kingdom, create a physique that not even the men of that community obtain, with muscular and athetic legs making her able to run, arms and chest puffed up, in addition to an almost natural ability to hold her breath, which makes her an expert swimmer. Yshykuce is sometimes envied for the true "physical blessing" that her adopted sister had, Yshykuce however competes with Olyra in running and swimming, although the lack of breath prevents her from being able to beat the princess for a long time.

Meanwhile, in the capital, Askadeu is at his residence, where he has a crystal ball, while meditating, the ball begins to shine in a way that becomes unbearable for the healer to resist the temptation to look at what happens, when he arrives, the ball then presents something that makes Askedeu completely celebratory, the ball demonstrates Olyra and Yshykuce picking some berries and wheat to make a pie, Askadeu recognizes Olyra by her eyes, and then goes into celebration to sebr that the true queen is alive in somewhere in Eskivina. When they are eating the pie, Oshua and Freyna decide to have a talk with Olyra after the meal, after the end of the meal they then take the basket which Olyra brought to them and reveal that she is actually adopted, and that she was pulled by the current of the river from the capital there, this leaves Olyra emotionally shaken, she then retires to her room, later, Yshykuce decides to visit her adopted sister in order to console her, getting there she discovers that Olyra plans to leave and find out where she should have been all this time, Yshykuce however tries to convince her to stay without success, so she decides to go along with Olyra on this trip. the next day, both then say that they will leave at sunrise the next day to Freyna and Oshua, who beg them to stay, but both are already decided, he then accepts the decision of both.

At sunrise, they leave for the trip in a canoe, which their father built together with some other neighbors for them, and then everyone says goodbye to Olyra and Yshykuce, and is moved to see the departure of the two young women towards the capital, Kouni. At a first stop, the two decide to bathe in the waters of the river, and stop at an archipelago, and when they are after bathing, they then hear a cry for help, when they get there, they find a young boy, who is tied to a tree trunk and seems to have been malnourished for several days, they ask his name, he then introduces himself, says his name Typachu, when Yshykuce asks how he got there, he says it was a trap set by Alashamu, that in addition to being a prominent military man, he is also married to Esra, which makes him king of Eskivina, but Esra is an unfaithful wife and betrayed her with Typachu, which made Alashamu so angry that he decided to kidnap him and leave him on that deserted island until he dies of hunger, thirst, or is bitten by a poisonous animal. Olyra says that both are leaving for the capital and invites Typachu to accompany them if he wants, the same accepts although afraid...