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Released
1997 · FILM

The Sheep Thief

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Written by
Runtime
24 min
Drama

Synopsis

A young boy is caught stealing a sheep and is punished by having all his hair shaved off and being branded with a mark on his forehead to signify that he is a thief and should not be trusted. He is then abandoned in the desert. The thief conceals his branding with a headscarf and makes his way to the nearest village, where he is accepted by a trusting family in exchange for his labor. The question remains—has he truly changed, or is he still the same thief at heart?

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Principal cast & crew: 10

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Hugo LawrenceShot by Roman OsinScored by Dario MarianelliDesigned by Victoria Harwood Kapadia

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