Waiting for the Barbarians

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Waiting for the Barbarians

Waiting for the Barbarians

original title:

Waiting for the Barbarians

directed by:

cast:

Mark Rylance, Johnny Depp, Robert Pattinson, Gana Bayarsaikhan, Greta Scacchi, Isabella Nefar, Harry Melling, David Dencik, Sam Reid, Bill Milner, Gursed Dalkhsuren, Tserendagva Purevdorj

screenplay:

J. M. Coetzee, from his novel with the same title

cinematography:

set design:

Crispian Sallis, Domenico Sica

costume design:

producer:

Andrea Iervolino, Monika Bacardi, Michael Fitzgerald, Olga Segura

production:

country:

Italy

year:

2019

film run:

104'

format:

colour

release date:

24/09/2019

festivals & awards:

WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS centers on the crisis of conscience of the Magistrate (Mark Rylance) who is a loyal servant of the Empire working in a tiny frontier town, doing his best to ignore an inevitable war with the “barbarians”. After he witnesses the cruel and unjust treatment of prisoners of war, he reconsiders his role in the regime and carries out a quixotic act of rebellion.