# Esperando a los Bárbaros (2020)

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**Original title**: *Waiting for the Barbarians*
**Runtime**: 112 min
**Genres**: Drama, History
**Directed by**: Ciro Guerra
**Written by**: Ciro Guerra
**Starring**: Mark Rylance, Johnny Depp, Robert Pattinson, Gana Bayarsaikhan, Greta Scacchi, David Dencik

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

The torturer’s manual meets Conrad in a desert fort. A magistrate must decide whether to obey orders or protect the nomads accused of plotting barbarian invasions. The quiet man carries the film the way a flagpole carries silence.

**Mood tags**: dread, outsider, slow-burn

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