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Taika David Cohen ONZM (born 16 August 1975), known professionally as Taika Waititi(/ˈtaɪkə ˈwaɪtɪti/ TY-kə WY-tee-tee), is a New Zealand filmmaker, actor and comedian. He is known for directing quirky comedy films and has expanded his career as a voice actor and producer on numerous projects. He has received multiple accolades, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award and a Grammy Award. Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2022. His feature films Boy (2010) and Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016) have each been the top-grossing New Zealand film. Waititi's 2003 short film Two Cars, One Night earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Live Action Short Film. He co-wrote, co-directed and starred in the horror comedy film What We Do in the Shadows (2014) with Jemaine Clement, which was adapted into a television series of the same name in 2019. The series has been nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series. His directing credits include the superhero films Thor: Ragnarok (2017) and Thor: Love and Thunder (2022), as well as the black comedy film Jojo Rabbit (2019), the last of which he also wrote and starred in as an imaginary version of Adolf Hitler. Jojo Rabbit received six Academy Award nominations and won Best Adapted Screenplay. Waititi also earned a Grammy Award for producing the film's soundtrack. In television, Waititi co-created and produced the comedy-drama series Reservation Dogs and directed, produced, and starred in the comedy Our Flag Means Death. In addition to directing an episode of The Mandalorian series, he voiced the character IG-11, for which he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance. Description above from the Wikipedia article Taika Waititi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Taika Waititi
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A young warlord rises from the fractured heart of Europe, driven by a conviction that unity is worth any cost. Set in the brutal uncertainty of the Early Middle Ages, Charlemagne follows a Frankish king as he expands a fragile realm through relentless conquest, political cunning, and religious devotion. As he wages war against Saxons, Lombards, and rival claimants, his empire grows—but so does the weight of what he demands from those he conquers. Forced conversions, mass executions, and the quiet erasure of older gods haunt every victory. At the center of the film is a man torn between two visions of himself: a divinely appointed protector of Christendom and a ruler who knows his empire is built on blood. Court intrigue, betrayals within his own family, and the looming authority of the Church test his control as much as the battlefield does. His coronation as Emperor is framed not as triumph, but as a moment of irreversible transformation—where ambition hardens into legacy. Charlemagne is a historical epic focused less on glory than on consequence, portraying the creation of Europe as an act of will, violence, and faith—and asking whether unity achieved through force can ever truly endure.
