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Waiting for the Barbarians is a novel by the South African writer J. M. Coetzee. First published in 1980, it was chosen by Penguin for its series Great Books of the 20th Century and won both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for fiction.
- John Maxwell Coetzee
- 1980
With Mark Rylance, Johnny Depp, Robert Pattinson, Gana Bayarsaikhan. At an isolated frontier outpost, a colonial magistrate suffers a crisis of conscience when an army colonel arrives looking to interrogate the locals about an impending uprising, using cruel tactics that horrify the magistrate.
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- Ciro Guerra
Aug 7, 2020 · In rides Johnny Depp ’s supremely smug Colonel Joll, with his stiff posture, cryptic cheekbones, and large round black sunglasses that turn his face into a creepy void.
At an isolated frontier outpost, a colonial magistrate of an unnamed empire suffers a crisis of conscience when an army colonel arrives looking to interrogate the locals about an impending uprising, using cruel tactics that horrify the magistrate.
Sep 6, 2019 · A civil officer in a sleepy border town of an unnamed empire unexpectedly comes face-to-face with the machinations of power in Waiting for the Barbarians, the English-language debut from...
Dec 20, 2023 · In WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS, a magistrate (Mark Rylance) is in charge of a remote outpost on an unnamed border. He receives a visit from Colonel Joll ( Johnny Depp ), who's determined to ward off a supposed impending attack by the "barbarians."
- Ciro Guerra
- Jeffrey M. Anderson
- Mark Rylance, Johnny Depp, Robert Pattinson
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Sep 6, 2019 · J.M. Coetzee's brilliant 1980 novel of colonial breakdown is a tough prospect to film; he and Colombian auteur Ciro Guerra make an uneven but eventually stirring stab at it. By Guy Lodge....
