The film stars Colin Firth, Ian Holm, Donald Pleasence, Nicol Williamson, Jim Carter and Amina Annabi.

The Hour of the Pig is set in 15th-century France and is based upon the career and case files of Bartholomew Chassenee, an actual lawyer of the time who served as an advocate for animals who were accused of crimes.

Richard Courtois and his clerk Mathieu have left the decadence of Paris in order to practise law in what they believe to be a quiet rural village, Abbeville, in the province of Ponthieu, then part of Burgundy rather than France.

At her execution, Jeannine says she will not curse the town but blesses it, saying a fine knight will arrive and deliver them from their lying and evil.

Two of the Moors, Mahmoud and his sister Samira, appeal to Courtois to save the pig, as it is their only source of food for the coming winter.

Samira later enters Courtois's room at night and quietly strips naked, offering her body in return for his services, but he refuses this.

Soon, Courtois finds that he is being used as a pawn in a complicated game of sociopolitical intrigue that extends beyond mere racism and corruption.

The Seigneur decides to sit in at court and uses this knowledge to threaten Courtois into letting the pig be executed.

The skeleton of another Jewish boy who went missing over a year ago is found while Courtois's house is being built.

For US release, the film was trimmed down, including a sex scene edited in part to avoid a stronger than R rating.

These include: When the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse allegations first broke in 2017, one of the early accusers was Sophie Dix.

She had claimed that he "performed an unwelcome sexual act in her presence after she was invited up his room at the Savoy hotel 'to watch some rushes'" for The Hour of The Pig.