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May 10, 1987 · A Gathering of Old Men: Directed by Volker Schlöndorff. With Louis Gossett Jr., Richard Widmark, Holly Hunter, Joe Seneca. A regular day in a Louisiana sugarcane plantation changes course when a local white farmer is shot in self defense.
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- Volker Schlöndorff
- 1987-05-10
A Gathering of Old Men is a 1987 American-German television drama film directed by Volker Schlöndorff and based on the novel of the same name. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival. The film was released as television film in the US.
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- Volker Schlöndorff
- 91 min
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Set on a 1970s Louisiana cane farm, the novel addresses racial discrimination in the post-civil rights era South. The novel's title characters each admit to the murder of Beau, a Cajun farmer, in an effort to protect the guilty party, and view their stand as a development of their manhood.
- Ernest J. Gaines
- 1983
A regular day in a Louisiana sugarcane plantation changes course when a local white farmer is shot in self defense. 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.
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Following the death of a racist white farmer, suspicions fly about the murderer's identity. Soon, elderly black man Mathu (Louis Gossett Jr.), a local sharecropper, is pegged as the prime suspect.
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