Odeon presents John Hillcoat's new film with an original title «Lawless» and the Greek translation "Illegals"which will premiere in Greek theatres, on Thursday 25 October 2012.
After the hard and pessimistic "The Road", Australian John Hillcoat tackles the historical novel "The Wettest County In The World" and tells a true story set in America during the Great Depression. The Tom Hardys (“The Dark Knight Rises”) and Shia LaBeouf (“Transformers”) play the Boudurand brothers, producers and smugglers of illegal whiskey. Co-starring Gary Altman and Guy Pearce, while the cast is completed by Jessica Chastain and Mia Wasikowska. The script was written by musician Nick Cave.
In the era of Prohibition, the Bondurant brothers are a legend in Franklin State, Virginia. Having survived the Great War and the Spanish Flu, they indulge in whiskey smuggling, also called moonshine because it is traded under the light of the moon. But the arrival of Police Officer Rakes from Chicago turns things around – and while the whole State submits to his new and corrupt regulations, the Bodurands bow to no one.
The Director
Director John Hillcoat was born in Queensland, Australia 1961 and grew up in Canada. He has directed music videos for artists such as Siouxsie and the Banshees, Depeche Mode, Placebo and Nick Cave. The 1988 is directing his first feature, το “Ghosts Of The Civil Dead”, for the screenplay of which he collaborated with Cave and is based on the life of the criminal and later author Jack Abbott. Follow it 1996 "To Have and To Hold" starring Cheki Karios, and 2005 "The Proposition", again scripted by Cave, starring Guy Pearce, Emily Watson and Ray Winstone. The 2009 the dramatic film "The Road" made a sensation, from Cormac McCarthy's book of the same title, starring Viggo Mortensen. "Illegals" was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the last Cannes Film Festival.
