{"id":1329,"date":"2018-08-24T16:06:47","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T14:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.port-prince.de\/?post_type=pap-project&p=1329"},"modified":"2021-03-03T20:25:13","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T19:25:13","slug":"sheperds-and-butchers-2","status":"publish","type":"pap-project","link":"https:\/\/port-prince.de\/en\/project\/sheperds-and-butchers-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hangman – Sheperds and Butchers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Director: <\/b><\/strong>Oliver Schmitz
Authors: <\/strong>Brian Cox, Chris Marnewick
<\/strong>Cast: <\/b><\/strong>Steve Coogan, Garion Dowds, Robert Hobbs, Andrea Riseborough
Producers: <\/b><\/strong>Distant Horizon<\/a>, <\/strong>Video Vision Entertainment<\/a>
<\/strong>German Co-Producer<\/strong>: Port au Prince Film & Kultur Produktion<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1987, South Africa during apartheid. The 19-year-old, white prison guard Leon (Garion Dowds) commits an inexplicably violent crime when he murders seven blacks in a hail of bullets. The outcome of the trial \u2013 as much as the sentence \u2013 seems a foregone conclusion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

John Weber (Steve Coogan), human rights activist and passionate opponent of the death penalty, steps forward and assumes the defense. In the course of his research, John discovers that Leon previously worked in the death tract of the country\u2019s most notorious prison. Like so many at the time, Leon was friend and hangman, shepherd and butcher to thousands of prisoners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

John realizes he\u2019s dealing with a case that allows him both to bring the entire system of state-sanctioned murder to trial and, at the same time, to illuminate the traumatic conditions that caused Leon\u2019s mental breakdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n