The Sheep Thief

The Sheep Thief

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Status

Released

Release Date

May 16, 1997

Runtime

0h 24m

Genres

Drama

User Score

51%

Original Title

The Sheep Thief

Production Companies

Channel 4 Television, Polaris Arts, Royal College of Art

Director

Asif Kapadia

Description

A young boy gets caught stealing a sheep and is shaved of all his hair and branded with a mark on his forehead so that everyone will know that he is a thief and not to be trusted. Dumped in the desert, the thief covers his marking with a headscarf and goes to the nearest village where he is taken in by a trusting family in return for his work. However, has be actually changed or is he still the same thief at heart?