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A drama film based on J. M. Coetzee's novel, starring Mark Rylance, Johnny Depp, and Robert Pattinson. It depicts the conflict between a magistrate and a colonel in a desert outpost of an unnamed empire.
Waiting for the Barbarians: Directed by Ciro Guerra. 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.
- (15K)
- Drama, History
- Ciro Guerra
- 2020-08-07
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
Aug 7, 2020 · Waiting for the Barbarians. 114 minutes ‧ NR ‧ 2020. Nick Allen. August 7, 2020. 6 min read. Mark Rylance had an easier time making us believe he was the 24-feet-tall “BFG” than he does here, trying to sell us a colonizer with a conscience in Ciro Guerra’s tedious “Waiting for the Barbarians.”
Waiting for the Barbarians. A local magistrate reevaluates his loyalty to his nation while holed up at a remote outpost. Watch Waiting for the Barbarians with a subscription on Prime...
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- Mark Rylance
- Ciro Guerra
- History, Drama
Sep 6, 2019 · 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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Waiting for the Barbarians. 2020 · 1 hr 54 min. TV-MA. Drama · Action · War. A colonial magistrate suffers a crisis of conscience when an army colonel arrives looking to interrogate the locals about an impending uprising. Subtitles: English.