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SYNOPSIS __________
Plot:
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...
DETAILS__________
Studio:
IFC Films
Trust Film Sales
Release Date:
TBA 2005
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