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Manderlay

2005, Movie, 2h 19min

In 1933, after leaving Dogville, Grace Margaret Mulligan sees a slave being punished at a cotton farm called Manderlay. Officially, slavery is illegal and Grace stands up against the farmers. She stays with some gangsters in Manderlay and tries to influence the situation. But when harvest time comes, Grace sees the social and economic reality of Manderlay.

Country: Netherlands,France,Sweden,United Kingdom,Germany,Denmark,Finland

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Reviews

Critic David Parkinson

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Unstintingly raw and cynical, this disconcerting and deeply affecting State Of The Union treatise regularly comes dangerously close to caricature. But that’s forgiveable...

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Critic Roger Ebert

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The Danish iconoclast holds strong ideas about our society, and expresses them in satiric allegories of such audacity that we cast loose from realism and simply float with his conceits.

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Critic Scott Tobias

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Even at his worst, von Trier can still strike a nerve.

Read full review at The A.V. Club

Critic Jesper Vestergaard

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...'Manderlay' er sine stilistiske kvaliteter til trods, blevet en mindre overbevisende mellemspiller.

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Critic Oskar Möller

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Filmkonst när den är som bäst. Hör ni ett ljud är det filmhistoriens vingslag.

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Frequently asked questions

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In the follow-up to Dogville, Grace and her father travel through rural Alabama in 1933, stumbling upon a plantation called Manderlay where slavery still reigns. Appalled by the injustice, Grace decides to stay and teach the white family and their slaves about democracy and freedom. But as she delves deeper into the community, she realizes that change is not coming easily, and her attempts to improve the situation only seem to make things worse. The film follows Grace's journey as she struggles to embed her ideals in the community and confronts the harsh reality of a society still deeply rooted in slavery.

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You can stream Manderlay on: Mubi

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Manderlay was released in theaters on February 3, 2006.