Manderlay

Name: Manderlay
Genre: Drama
Released: 2005-06-03
Duration: 2 h 19 min
Rating: 7.2
Cast: Bryce Dallas Howard, Isaach De Bankolé, Danny Glover, Willem Dafoe, Michaël Abiteboul

Liberation. Whether they want it or not.

Manderlay (2005)

Timing: 2:19 (139 min)

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Release date

2005-06-03

Country

Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States, Finland

Genre

Drama

Budget

$14 200 000

Box office

$674 918

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Director

Lars von Trier

Actors

Bryce Dallas Howard, Isaach De Bankolé, Danny Glover, Willem Dafoe, Michaël Abiteboul, Lauren Bacall, Jean-Marc Barr, Geoffrey Bateman, Virgile Bramly, Ruben Brinkman
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Scenario

Lars von Trier

Producer

Vibeke Windeløv, Lene Borglum, Peter Aalbæk Jensen

Camera operator

Anthony Dod Mantle

Composer

Joachim Holbek

Artist

Francoise Delaire

Audition

Avy Kaufman, Joyce Nettles, Job Gosschalk

Editing

Molly Malene Stensgaard, Bodil Kjaerhauge
Whole Team (172)

Short description

In 1933, a young woman and her father discover an Alabama plantation whose inhabitants live as if slavery had never been abolished. Feeling a sense of duty to those behind the heavy gates, she stays to liberate the people and see them through their first harvest. With four of her father's colleagues and a lawyer, she faces the daunting task of resurrecting the place known as Manderlay.

What's left behind the scenes

Initially, it was assumed that Nicole Kidman, who played Grace in "Dogville" (2003), would reprise the role in the other two films of the "USA – Land of Opportunities" trilogy. However, in July 2003, Nicole Kidman left the project as her participation conflicted with her other creative plans.
American actor John Reilly initially began filming in the role of Dr. Hector, but he suddenly left the project in the midst of production.
James Caan, who played Grace’s father in "Dogville" (2003), stated in an interview that he declined to participate in the sequel for two reasons: firstly, because Nicole Kidman had left the project; and secondly, because he felt that Lars von Trier was, according to the actor, 'very anti-American, so to hell with him… I’m very pro-American. I’m a conservative – mostly.'
The film’s plot was inspired by the foreword written by Jean Polan, a member of the French Academy, writer, and critic, to Pauline Réage’s notoriously famous novel “Story O,” titled “Happiness in Slavery.” This foreword begins with a description of a revolt by negroes that occurred on the island of Barbados in 1838. It started when, early one morning, several black men and women – former slaves who had recently been granted freedom by law – came to their former master, Mr. Glenelg, and asked him to make them slaves again. After talking to them, Glenelg refused. And then his former slaves began to threaten him, and then resorted to physical force – first moderately, and then with increasing fervor. It all ended with Mr. Glenelg and his entire family being brutally murdered by these people. That same evening, the negroes returned to their old dwellings, intended for slaves, and began to live there as they had before the abolition of slavery.
Well-known African American actor Danny Glover, who played one of the slaves, initially refused the role, but accepted a subsequent offer.