Manderlay
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Lars Von Trier
Bryce Dallas Howard
Udo Kier
Jean-marc Barr
Jeremy Davies
Danny Glover
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
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 favorable 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.
Director
Lars Von Trier
Cast
Bryce Dallas Howard
Udo Kier
Jean-marc Barr
Jeremy Davies
Danny Glover
Isaach Debankolt
Willem Dafoe
Lauren Bacall
Chlod Sevigny
Zeljko Ivanek
Michael Abiteboul
Geoffrey Bateman
Virgile Bramly
Ruben Brinkman
Dona Croll
Llewella Gideon
Mona Hammond
Ginny Holder
John Hurt
Emmanuel Idowu
Teddy Kempner
Rik Launspach
Suzette Llewellyn
Charles Maquignon
Javone Prince
Joseph Mydell
Clive Rowe
Nina Sosanya
Crew
Kristian Eidnes Andersen
Humbert Balsan
Gillian Berrie
Bettina Brokemper
Lene Børglum
Anthony Dod Mantle
Anthony Dod Mantle
Anthony Dod Mantle
Michael Elliott
Mike Elliott
Asa Frankenberg
Peter Grant
Peter Grant
Simone Grau
Peter Hjorth
Lars J÷nsson
Peter Aalbaek Jensen
Signe Jensen
Avy Kaufman
Marten Negenman
Joyce Nettles
Manon Rasmussen
Molly Malene Stensgaard
Ad Stoop
Per Streit
Els Vandevorst
Lars Von Trier
Lars Von Trier
Vibeke Windel°v
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States 2005 (Shown at London Film Festival (Film on the Square) October 19-November 3, 2005.)
Released in United States 2005 (Shown at New York Film Festival September 22-October 9, 2005.)
Released in United States January 2006 (Shown at Palm Springs International Film Festival (World Cinema Now) January 5-16, 2006.)
Released in United States Winter January 27, 2006
Expanded Release in United States February 3, 2006
Released in United States on Video August 8, 2006
Released in United States 2005
Released in United States January 2006
Shown at London Film Festival (Film on the Square) October 19-November 3, 2005.
Shown at New York Film Festival September 22-October 9, 2005.
Shown at Palm Springs International Film Festival (World Cinema Now) January 5-16, 2006.
Nicole Kidman was previously attached to star.
Project is the second installment in the Danish maverick's trilogy "U, S and A." The first film in the trilogy is "Dogville" (2002) with another film to be announced.
Actor John C. Reilly left the production in protest after they filmed a donkey being killed.
Released in United States Winter January 27, 2006
Expanded Release in United States February 3, 2006
Released in United States on Video August 8, 2006