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Like the Micheaux films of the period, writer/director Richard Maurice offers a somewhat dizzying hodgepodge of melodrama and social commentary that is as undeniably powerful as it is potentially confusing. In a complex, highly-wrought narrative encompassing multiple characters, decades of conflict,...

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1. Verfasser: Gal, Rob (KomponistIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Maurice, Richard (RegisseurIn), Fields, Sammie (SchauspielerIn), Johnson, Orine (SchauspielerIn), Maurice, Wanda (SchauspielerIn)
Format: Video Software Buchkapitel
Sprache:Undetermined
Veröffentlicht: London bfi [2016]
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Zusammenfassung:Like the Micheaux films of the period, writer/director Richard Maurice offers a somewhat dizzying hodgepodge of melodrama and social commentary that is as undeniably powerful as it is potentially confusing. In a complex, highly-wrought narrative encompassing multiple characters, decades of conflict, and even animal-spirit mysticism, the film is framed, and literally dreamed up, by a young African-American newspaper writer (Sammie Fields) who is on the tight deadline of the title! The dramatis personae of the young writer's dreamed drama of strife in the inner city include the beleaguered "mixed race" street performer Sundaisy (writer/director Maurice), his estranged wife (Orine Johnson), their talented daughter, and the unrepentant street hood Clyde of whom Sundaisy promised the boy's dying father Stewart to help "reform". Ending in tragedy for all concerned, the film features an early depiction of the cycle of poverty, criminality, and revenge later shown in social dramas of the 1930s couched, somewhat, by the "supernatural" aspects of the story, not to mention the framing device of a "dream-vision". For its contemporary audience, though, the strange "goings-on" possibly helped justify the film’s frank portrayal of bleak social ills. [www.zekefilm.org]
Beschreibung:1 DVD-Video (63 Min.) schwarz-weiß

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