CAST AND CREW
Manderlay
Release Date: Jan 27, 2006 - Wide Release
Distributor: IFC Films
Film Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
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Distributor: IFC Films
Film Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
» Official Website
This is the strange, disturbing story of the Manderlay plantation.
Manderlay lay on a lonely plain somewhere in the deep south of the USA. It was in the year of 1933 that Grace and her father had left the township of Dogville behind them. Grace's father and his army of villains had spent the entire winter seeking out new hunting grounds in vain, and now they were heading south in one last attempt to find a favourable location in which to take up residence.
By chance their cars stop in the state of Alabama in front of a large iron gate bearing a thick chain and a padlock. Beside the gate, a dead oak tree towers over a heavy boulder with Manderlay hewn in monumental letters into the granite.
Just as Grace, her father and his men are about to leave after a short break and a quick lunch, a young black woman runs up to the car. She knocks on Grace's window. She hammers at the glass in despair.
Ignoring her father's advice to leave others to their own affairs, Grace follows the girl through the gates of Manderlay and there, she finds a group of people living as if slavery had not been abolished seventy years earlier, with white masters and black slaves...
Grace believes that she has a duty to make it up to the slaves for injustices they have suffered at the hands of her kind: 'we brought them here, we abused them and made them what they are', as she argues to her father; and she decides that having liberated Manderlay, she will remain at the plantation until she has seen them through their first harvest.
Her father grudgingly leaves her with four henchmen and a lawyer, warning Grace that he won't be there to pick up the pieces when her plans for the resurrection of Manderlay fall apart...
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TRIVIA
Lars von Trier received the Golden Palm from the Cannes film Festival for his feature Dancer in the Dark (2000).
MOVIE NEWS ITEMS
2005-03-03
The Associated Press reports that Lars Von Trier has cut a scene that featured a donkey being butchered for food from his latest film after protests by animal rights groups.
The Associated Press reports that Lars Von Trier has cut a scene that featured a donkey being butchered for food from his latest film after protests by animal rights groups.
2004-04-08
The Hollywood Reporter reports that Willem Dafoe has joined the cast.
The Hollywood Reporter reports that Willem Dafoe has joined the cast.
2003-12-02
The Hollywood Reporter reports that Bryce Dallas Howard is in negotiations to play the lead character which Kidman played in the first film. The shooting is scheduled to begin in March in Denmark.
The Hollywood Reporter reports that Bryce Dallas Howard is in negotiations to play the lead character which Kidman played in the first film. The shooting is scheduled to begin in March in Denmark.
2003-07-24
Variety reports that Nicole Kidman has dropped out of the picture because of scheduling problems since this film is on a tight timetable to finish shooting by July 2004.
Variety reports that Nicole Kidman has dropped out of the picture because of scheduling problems since this film is on a tight timetable to finish shooting by July 2004.
2002-11-05
Variety reports that Kidman will play in the complete trilogy. The film is scheduled to shoot in August 2003.
Variety reports that Kidman will play in the complete trilogy. The film is scheduled to shoot in August 2003.
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