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Waiting for the Barbarians

Rating 5.9 / 10Release July 30, 2020Runtime 112 min

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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