Waiting for the Barbarians
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.
- Runtime
- 1h 52m
- Released
- 2019
- Country
- Italy, United States
Details
Release year: 2019
Storyline
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.
Top credits
Mark Rylance — Magistrate
Johnny Depp — Col. Joll
Robert Pattinson — Officer Mandel- Gana Bayarsaikhan — The Girl
Did you know
• Director Ciro Guerra's English-language debut.
• Principal photography took place in November and December 2018 in Morocco and Italy.
• The title of the film was originally a poem by Greek poet C.P. Cavafy. It is this poem that lent its title to the novel by J.M. Coetzee, which, in turn, the film was based on.
User reviews
Coetzee eye-view on the blurring of morality
A lost masterpiece
Pain is truth
Technical specs
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
- Color
- Color
