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title: 'The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (2023)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Francis Lawrence'
released: '2023-11-15'
runtime_minutes: 158
certification: 'PG-13'
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Action'
  - 'Adventure'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-hunger-games-the-ballad-of-songbirds-and-snakes-2023'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10545296/'
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---

# The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (2023)

2023 · PG-13 · 158 min · Drama, Action, Adventure · United States

Part of: The Hunger Games

## Synopsis

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes is a 2023 American dystopian film produced and directed by Francis Lawrence from a screenplay by Michael Lesslie and Michael Arndt, based on the 2020 novel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins. It serves as a prequel to The Hunger Games (2012) and the fifth installment in The Hunger Games film series. The film stars Tom Blyth, Rachel Zegler, Hunter Schafer, Jason Schwartzman, Peter Dinklage, Josh Andrés Rivera, and Viola Davis. In the film, Coriolanus Snow (Blyth) is called on to mentor Lucy Gray Baird (Zegler), a Games tribute, as he seeks to restore his family's prosperity in Panem.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Francis Lawrence](https://cinepixo.com/people/francis-lawrence)
- **Screenplay:** [Michael Arndt](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-arndt), [Michael Lesslie](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-lesslie)
- **Original Music Composer:** [James Newton Howard](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-newton-howard)
- **Producer:** [Nina Jacobson](https://cinepixo.com/people/nina-jacobson)
- **Director of Photography:** [Jo Willems](https://cinepixo.com/people/jo-willems)

## Cast

- [Flora Thiemann](https://cinepixo.com/people/flora-thiemann)
- [Viola Davis](https://cinepixo.com/people/viola-davis)
- [Honor Gillies](https://cinepixo.com/people/honor-gillies)
- [Zoe Renee](https://cinepixo.com/people/zoe-renee)
- [Tom Blyth](https://cinepixo.com/people/tom-blyth) as Coriolanus Snow
- [Josh Andres Rivera](https://cinepixo.com/people/josh-andres-rivera)
- [Peter Dinklage](https://cinepixo.com/people/peter-dinklage)
- [Michael Greco](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-greco)
- [Jason Schwartzman](https://cinepixo.com/people/jason-schwartzman)
- [Cooper Dillon](https://cinepixo.com/people/cooper-dillon)
- [Mackenzie Lansing](https://cinepixo.com/people/mackenzie-lansing)
- [Dimitri Abold](https://cinepixo.com/people/dimitri-abold)
- [Irene Böhm](https://cinepixo.com/people/irene-bohm)
- [Luna Kuse](https://cinepixo.com/people/luna-kuse)
- [Fionnula Flanagan](https://cinepixo.com/people/fionnula-flanagan)

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