
Liberation. Whether they want it or not.
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.
6.9
391 reviewsRuntime: 139 min.
Budget: $14,200,000
Revenue: $674,918
Release Date: 2005-06-03
Director(s): Lars von Trier
Production: Zentropa Entertainments, Isabella Films B.V., Pain Unlimited Filmproduktion, Manderlay, Sigma Films, Memfis Film, Ognon Pictures, Film i Väst, DR, ARTE France Cinéma, SVT, WDR, ARTE, NPS, YLE
Languages: English
IMDB: tt0342735
Collection: USA: Land of Opportunities Collection
Interesting social / psychological experiment following the trail of Dogville but not as round and imaginative as the previous one.