Year: 1987
Runtime: 91 mins
Language: English
Director: Volker Schlöndorff
On a Louisiana sugarcane plantation, an ordinary day shatters when a white farmer is shot in self‑defense. A group of elderly Black men step forward together to claim responsibility for killing a white racist. As the sheriff confronts them, the young plantation owner stands alone, defiantly defending them and sparking racial tension that drives film.
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