Manderlay
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| Directed by | Lars von Trier |
| Produced by | Vibeke Windeløv |
| Written by | Lars von Trier |
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| Narrated by | John Hurt |
| Music by | Joachim Holbek |
| Cinematography | Anthony Dod Mantle |
| Edited by | Molly Marlene Stensgård |
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| Distributed by | Distributionsselskabet (Denmark) |
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138 minutes |
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| Language | English |
| Budget | $14.2 million |
| Box office | $675.000 |
Manderlay is a 2005 internationally co-produced avant-garde drama film written and directed by Lars von Trier and the second part of von Trier's projected USA – Land of Opportunities trilogy. It stars Bryce Dallas Howard, who replaces Nicole Kidman in the role of Grace Mulligan. The film co-stars Willem Dafoe, replacing James Caan. Lauren Bacall, Željko Ivanek, Jeremy Davies, and Chloë Sevigny return portraying different characters from those in Dogville. Only John Hurt, Udo Kier, and Jean-Marc Barr reprise their roles.
The staging is very similar to Dogville. The film was shot on a sparsely dressed sound stage. As in the case of Dogville, Manderlay's action is confined to a small geographic area, in this case a plantation.
The film is told in eight straight chapters:
Set in the 1933, the film takes up the story of Grace and her father after burning the town of Dogville at the end of the previous film. Grace and her father travel in convoy with a number of gunmen through rural Alabama where they stop briefly outside a plantation called Manderlay. As the gangsters converse, a black woman emerges from Manderlay's front gates complaining that someone is about to be whipped for stealing a bottle of wine.
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