Danny Glover plays Wilhelm in 'Manderlay'
We have added some stills from forthcoming drama Manderlay, which stars Bryce Dallas Howard, Isaach De Bankolé, Willem Dafoe and Danny Glover.
This is the strange, disturbing story of the Manderlay plantation.
Manderlay lay on a lonly 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, with Grace's unforgettable verdict:
"If there is any town the world would be a little better without, this is it"; and had driven homewards towards the city of Denver.
But being away from home is a serious matter in the gangster business, and the mice had been well and truly playing while the cat was away.
Grace's father and his army of villain had spent the entire winter seeking out new hunting grounds in vain, and now, in this early month of spring, they are driving south in one last attempt to find a favourable location in which to take up residence.
By chance their cars stop in th State of Alabama in front of a large iron gate bearing a thick chain and 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.
Grace gets out of the car, and ignoring the distinct advice of her father she 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.
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