INTO THE ABYSS Special Screenings

Living legend Werner Herzog returns to AFI FEST for the second year in a row with a new documentary. This time, Herzog turns his focus on one horrible crime in Texas and the realities of Death Row. A young man is scheduled to die. The details of his horrific crime ore plainly laid out for the camera . His accomplice will spend the rest of his life in jail. Born of poverty, youth and ignorance, their offenses ore indefensible. However shattered the lives of the survivors may be, it still seems that death for the perpetrator is inhumane. Herzog’s lens looks deep into the wild and seemingly uncompromising eyes of the condemned and examines the devastating impact his execution has on everyone connected to it, from prison chaplain to guards and beyond. With his empathetic and humanistic style, Herzog guides his subjects toward confronting their inner turmoil about this hot-button issue in America .