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A South African lawyer defends a traumatized prison guard haunted by his experiences witnessing executions, battling moral and legal dilemmas.
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Berlin 2016: Panorama Audience Award Winner. In this engrossing courtroom drama, inspired by true events, a determined British lawyer takes the tough case of a 19-year-old man charged with murdering seven black South Africans in cold blood.
"Shepherds and Butchers is a South African drama based on true events, set near the end of apartheid, starring Steve Coogan and Andrea Riseborough. The story follows a lawyer assigned an impossible case: defending a young white prison guard who executes seven unarmed Black men. The lawyer must argue that the crime was the result of severe post-traumatic stress from all the executions he had to carry out in prison. It’s a powerful drama, with intense performances and serious questions about the brutal ways discrimination can manifest and inflict deep harm on a society."