A Prayer Before Dawn

Ambitious amateur boxer and heroin addict Billy Moore suddenly finds himself in one of the most dangerous prisons in the world: the Thai Klong Prem. Very quickly he finds out how much a life is worth in this ‘hell of Bangkok’ where mass rape, savage battles and murder are the order of the everyday. The only way out for Billy is to fight his ruthless, tattoo-covered fellow inmates at the regularly held boxing matches. Five years after PUNK (ZFF 2012), director Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire returns to Zurich with his tumultuous genre-horror based on the memoires of Billy Moore. A PRAYER BEFORE DAWN whisks us passed sweaty, trembling bodies and acres of skin on a journey through the claustrophobic corridors of madness.