The Hour of the Pig (1993)DVD VHS | Cast list | | Colin Firth | as | Richard Courtois | | Ian Holm | as | Albertus | | Donald Pleasence | as | Pincheon | | Amina Annabi | as | Samira | | Nicol Williamson | as | Seigneur Jehan d'Auferre | | Michael Gough | as | Magistrate Boniface | | Harriet Walter | as | Jeannine Martin | | Jim Carter | as | Mathieu | | Lysette Anthony | as | Filette d'Auferre | | Sophie Dix | as | Maria | | Vincent Grass | as | Bailiff Labatier | | Elizabeth Spriggs | as | Madame Langlois | | Raoul Delfosse | as | Blind George | | Justin Chadwick | as | Gerard d'Auferre | | Jean-Pierre Stewart | as | Sheriff |
| | Crew list: | | Leslie Megahey (Director) | | Leslie Megahey (Writer) |
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Review
Set in 15th century France. A Parisian lawyer wearies of the cynical sophistication of the capital and solicits appointment as the public defender in a remote, rural province. He finds himself expected to defend a pig in a murder trial. (As the public prosector says, "Anyone who knows animals knows there are good ones and bad ones.") What initially appears to be a case based on simple rural superstition turns out to conceal a far worse corruption. Eventually the lawyer returns to the capital, having learned that cynical sophistication is not so easily evaded. |
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