"The Last Executioner" was one of the award-winning films of the Shanghai Film Festival.
The Thai Director's Tape Tom waller won the best actor award for Vithaya Pansringarm.
«The Last Executioner»This is the third film by this director, born in Bangkok to a Thai Buddhist mother and an Irish Catholic father.
Tom Waller made his feature film debut with the British film 'Monk dawson»In 1998 and it was not until 2011 that he did not shoot his second film, already in Thailand,«Sop-mai-ngeap»Where he had Vithaya Pansringarm as the protagonist and co-writer.
In "The Last Executioner" the filmmaker has given him a starring role, which has earned him the best actor award in Shanghai, to Vithaya Pansringarm, which we know in the West for his role in Nicolas Winding Refn's film "Only God Forgives."
The film tells the true story of Chavoret Jaruboon, official executioner in Thailand from 1984 to 2003 who during those 19 years was in charge of executing 55 prisoners with the machine gun until the country changed the method of execution to lethal injection. Chavoret Jarubon was forced to accept this job in order to support his three children, despite the fact that it clashed with his Buddhist beliefs.