Alemania título: Shadrach – Die Heimkehr des Fremden Rusia título: Шадрак Título original: Shadrach
Drama – Estados Unidos de América Año de producción: 1997 Duración: 80 minutos
Dirección: Susanna Styron Guionista: William Styron, Susanna Styron, Bridget Terry Fotografía: Hiro Narita Música: Van Dyke Parks
Sinopsis:
In the summer of 1935, lonely young Paul, with his strict father and fatally ill mother, is raised in a boring, middle-class way of life, so mundane it leads him into a friendship with the lower-class Dabneys, once aristocratic but now reduced to poverty on the former Dabney plantation. Bootlegger Vernon is married to earthy beer-drinking Trixie, and Paul enjoys the fun-loving lifestyle of this couple and their seven children. Shadrach, a 99-year-old former slave, turns up one day at the Dabney house after walking barefoot from Alabama to Virginia, where he was born into slavery. Since Shadrach’s wish to be buried on the Dabney’s land violates Virginia law, the request sets a variety of racist attitudes and conflicts into motion.