Shepherds and Butchers

About Shepherds and Butchers

A lawyer takes on a case of a prison guard in South Africa who is traumatized by the executions he's witnessed.

Oliver Schmitz's Shepherds and Butchers is a 2017 drama film. Released in May 2017, it runs 106 minutes.

Steve Coogan takes the lead as John Weber, Andrea Riseborough as Kathleen Marais, Garion Dowds as Leon Labuschagne, and Marcel Van Heerden as Justice J. P. van Zyl. The story is adapted from a novel.

Shelv files it under courtroom, south africa, death penalty, and apartheid.

Moffie, Cry, the Beloved Country, and The Green Mile make useful companions to Shepherds and Butchers. It scores 6.3 out of 10 from 79 TMDB voters.