Samuel Goldwyn Films has debuted the first trailer and a new poster for director Ciro Guerra’s upcoming drama Waiting for the Barbarians. Based on Nobel Prize winning author J.M Coetzee’s novel of the same name, and features a cast that includes Mark Rylance, Johnny Depp, Robert Pattinson, Gana Bayarsaikhan, and Greta Scacchi; take a look here…
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The Magistrate (Mark Rylance) of an isolated frontier settlement on the border of an unnamed empire looks forward to an easy retirement until the arrival of Colonel Joll (Johnny Depp), whose task it is to report on the activities of the ‘barbarians’ and on the security situation on the border. Joll conducts a series of ruthless interrogations, which leads the Magistrate to question his loyalty to the empire.
Waiting for the Barbarians is set for a digital and VOD release on August 7th.
