INTO THE ABYSS
2011, 106′
Director: Werner Herzog
Country: USA
Distributor: ZDF Studios
Language: OV English with Italian subtitles
In the small town of Conroe, Texas, Jason Burkett and Michael Perry shot Sandra Stotler, her son Adam, and his friend Jeremy in cold blood on October 24, 2001. Found and arrested, the two 19-year-olds were convicted: Burkett was sentenced to life imprisonment, and Perry to be executed. On July 1, 2010, Werner Herzog met Michael Perry eight days before his execution. After this meeting, the director returned to the scene of the crime, met with investigators, consulted the police documentation, talked with the families of the victims and the criminals, and met a former executioner of Death Row inmates: not to judge, but to try to go beyond the facts and understand the depths of the human soul.
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