Shepherds and Butchers
May 12 2017
•2h 46m
•Drama
A lawyer takes on a case of a prison guard in South Africa who is traumatized by the executions he's witnessed.
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Steve Coogan
John Weber
Andrea Riseborough
Kathleen Marais
Garion Dowds
Leon Labuschagne
Marcel Van Heerden
Justice J. P. van Zyl
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