A Black Rail's Tale
Lynn Tomlinson
Shepherds And Butchers (2016)
Genre
Drama
Release Date
October 14, 2016
Studio
Videovision Entertainment
Genre
Drama
Release Date
October 14, 2016
MPAA Rating
R
Duration
80 minute(s)
Production Budget
-
Studio
Videovision Entertainment
Official Site
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Director
Oliver Schmitz
Producer
Brian Cox, Anant Singh
Screenwriter
Brian Cox
Starring
- Steve Coogan as Johan Webber
- Andrea Riseborough as Kathleen Marais
- Deon Lotz
- Robert Hobbs
- Lauren Steyn
- Brett Williams
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.
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