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Nearing the end of apartheid in South Africa, a young white prison guard (Garion Dowds) embarks on a seemingly motiveless shooting that sees to the death of seven unarmed black men.
Mar 23, 2017 · SHEPHERDS AND BUTCHERS follows a jaded lawyer, John Weber (Steve Coogan), who takes on a seemingly hopeless multiple murder case and uncovers scandalous shortcomings in South Africa's capital punishment system as he mounts a defense for a prison guard traumatized by the executions he took part in.
- (3.1K)
- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Oliver Schmitz
- 2017-03-23
Sep 27, 2020 · 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 ...
- 3 min
- 19.9K
- Madman Films
When Leon, a white 19-year-old prison guard killing seven black men in a hail of bullets. Hotshot lawyer John Weber reluctantly takes on the unwinnable case....
About this movie arrow_forward Steve Coogan stars in this courtroom thriller as a British barrister taking on a seemingly unwinnable case defending a traumatized correctional officer...
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Feb 13, 2016 · A teenage guard of death row recounts his trauma in this apartheid-era procedural, adapted from a novel by a lawyer. Steve Coogan and Andrea Riseborough star as the lawyers on opposite sides of the case, but the film falters in its courtroom scenes.