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    The Hangman: Shepherds and Butchers

    Poster of the movie The Hangman: Shepherds and Butchers
    2016     Drama    
    South Africa/USA/Germany
    1h 20min
    Original lang: English, Afrikaans
    R
    Guide for parents: disturbing, violence.
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    Guide for parents: Rated R in the USA, disturbing, violence.
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    Guide for parents: Rated R in the USA, disturbing, violence.
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    Guide for parents: Rated R in the USA, disturbing, violence.
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    Guide for parents: Rated R in the USA, disturbing, violence.
    ·
    Guide for parents: Rated R in the USA, disturbing, violence.
    ·
    Guide for parents: Rated R in the USA, disturbing, violence.
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    Guide for parents: Rated R in the USA, disturbing, violence.

    South Africa, 1987. When Leon, a white 19-year-old prison guard commits an inexplicable act of violence, killing seven black men in a hail of bullets, the outcome of the trial - and the court's sentence - seems a foregone conclusion. Hotshot lawyer John Weber reluctantly takes on the seemingly unwinnable case. A passionate opponent of the death penalty, John discovers that young Leon worked on death row in the nation's most notorious prison, under traumatic conditions: befriending the inmates over the years while having to assist their eventual execution. As the court hearings progress, the case offers John the opportunity to put the entire system of legally sanctioned murder on trial. How can one man take such a dual role of friend and executioner, becoming both shepherd and butcher? Inspired by true events, this is the story that puts death penalty on trial and changes history.

    Directed byOliver Schmitz
    Written byBrian Cox

    Starring

    Andrea Riseborough
    Steve Coogan
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    Trailer

    7 years ago

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