Take a look to the first official picture of Shepherds and Butchers, the upcoming drama movie directed by Oliver Schmitz based on a script by Brian Cox and starring Steve Coogan:
“South Africa, 1987. When Leon (Garion Dowds), 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 (Steve Coogan) 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.”
Damn, never Steve Coogan could be handsome, but he actually is in that suit!
Besides Steve Coogan, the cast also includes Andrea Riseborough, Garion Dowds, Robert Hobbs, Deon Lotz, Matthew Dylan Roberts, Lauren Steyn, and Carel Nel.
There’s no official release date yet.
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