Into the Abyss

A haunting portrayal of people who are neither completely innocent nor wholly evil, and the terrible price of killing...

...et smukt og nænsomt indblik i menneskelig natur og hvordan en tragisk forbrydelse kan påvirke os.

Herzog’s goal isn’t to convince an appeals board to reopen the case—if it is, he’s failed utterly—but to understand the death penalty from every angle, satisfying another curiosity in a career compelled by them.

...may be the saddest film Werner Herzog has ever made.