A Gathering of Old Men

Ein Aufstand alter Männer

United States, West Germany

1987

91 Min

Color

1.33:1

English

Currently 2.8/5 Stars.
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PROD Gower Frost, Eberhard Junkersdorf, Hans Prescher, Michael Deeley

SCR Ernest J. Gaines, Charles Fuller

CAST Louis Gossett Jr., Richard Widmark, Holly Hunter, Joe Seneca, Will Patton

SOUND Jay Dranch, Neelon Crawford

Cannes (Un Certain Regard)

Synopsis

A regular day in a Louisiana sugarcane plantation changes course when a local white farmer is shot. A group of old, black men takes a courageous step by coming forward en masse to take responsibility for the killing of a white racist, whom one of their members has shot. As the sheriff confronts the suspects, the young plantation owner stands alone in her daring defense of this group of men, provoking racial tension that makes a compelling drama. —IMDb

Director

Volker Schlöndorff

Volker Schlöndorff (born 31 March 1939 in Wiesbaden, Germany) is a Berlin-based German filmmaker.

He won an Oscar as well as the Palme d’or at the Cannes Film Festival for The Tin Drum (1979), the film version of the novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Günter Grass.

Schlöndorff has adapted many literary works for his movies, including some critically well-received US productions, but he is also engaged in post-war German politics. He served as the chief executive for the UFA studio in Babelsberg. Volker Schlöndorff also teaches film and literature at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, where he conducts an Intensive Summer Seminar.

He was married to fellow film director Margarethe von Trotta from 1971 to 1991. —Wikipedia

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