Samuel Goldwyn Films has released the first trailer for Ciro Guerra’s “Waiting for the Barbarians” starring Mark Rylance, Johnny Depp and Robert Pattinson.
Based on Nobel Prize-winning author J.M. Coetzee’s novel of the same name, Rylance plays The Magistrate of an isolated frontier settlement on the border of an unnamed empire who looks forward to an easy retirement until the arrival of Colonel Joll (Depp).
Joll’s task 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.
Greta Scacchi, David Dencik, Sam Reid, Harry Melling, Gana Bayarsaikhan, and Bill Milner co-star and the film will be released On Demand and on digital platforms on August 7th.
