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Sir Ben Kingsley (born Krishna Pandit Bhanji; 31 December 1943) is an English actor. He has received accolades throughout his career spanning five decades, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Grammy Award, and two Golden Globe Awards, as well as nominations for four Primetime Emmy Awards and two Laurence Olivier Awards. Kingsley was appointed Knight Bachelor in 2002 for services to the British film industry. He was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2010 and received the Britannia Award in 2013. Born to an English mother and an Indian Gujarati father with roots in Jamnagar, Kingsley began his career in theatre, joining the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1967 and spending the next 15 years appearing mainly on stage. His starring roles included productions of As You Like It (his West End debut for the company at the Aldwych Theatre in 1967), Much Ado About Nothing, Richard III, The Tempest, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, and The Merry Wives of Windsor. Also known for his television roles, he received four Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his performances in Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story (1989), Joseph (1995), Anne Frank: The Whole Story (2001), and Mrs. Harris (2006). In film, Kingsley is known for his starring role as Mahatma Gandhi in Richard Attenborough's Gandhi (1982), for which he subsequently won the Academy Award for Best Actor and BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. For his portrayal of Itzhak Stern in Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List (1993), he received a BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role nomination. He was Oscar-nominated for Bugsy (1990), Sexy Beast (2000), and House of Sand and Fog (2003). His other notable films include Maurice (1987), Sneakers (1992), Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993), Death and the Maiden (1994), Twelfth Night (1996), Tuck Everlasting (2002), Elegy (2008), Shutter Island (2010), and Hugo (2011). Kingsley played the character of Trevor Slattery in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, appearing in Iron Man 3 (2013), Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021), and the upcoming Disney+ series Wonder Man. He also acted in the blockbusters Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010) and Ender's Game (2013). Kingsley lent his voice to the films The Boxtrolls (2014) and The Jungle Book (2016).
The story of the novel begins in the Turkish city of Istanbul, located on both banks of the Bosphorus, which separates Europe from Asia. A rich tobacco trader, Kéraban, lives here. His house is located in the Asian district of Scutari, his office is in the European part, so he has to use the ferry every day. Kéraban is visited by a business partner from Rotterdam, Jan Van Mitten, and a servant, Bruno. He decides to invite Van Mitten to his house for dinner. When everyone wants to travel across the strait, Kéraban finds out that this transport has been burdened by a new tax. Kerraban is very angry, he doesn't want to pay. He decides to take a 700km trip around the Black Sea. The problem with the trip is that he has to return to Istanbul within six weeks to arrange Ahmet's nephew's wedding to the girl Amasia, who has to marry by her 17th birthday, otherwise he will not inherit one hundred thousand Turkish pounds. in Odessa, Ahmet and Amasia joins, followed by a wild boar attack, then big problems arise due to hired bandits who are trying to prevent the wedding. Then the Russian Cossacks, pirates, and Kurds, and abduction of Amasia. They get back to Istanbul. Ahmet's wedding to Amasia can be only in the European part of the city, where Kéraban can´t get without paying that ferry fee. A well-known artist intends to cross the Bosphorus on a rope that is 1,300 meters long stretched between its two banks. Kéraban lets himself be transported on a rope in a wheelbarrow.
