Tod am Mississippi

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Tod am Mississippi (1974)

Directed by Ralph Boettner

Drama · 1h 26m

USA 1964: Three young men are arrested on suspicion of speeding. As it turns out, they are employees of a civil rights center in Mississippi who are fighting against the racist Ku Klux Klan. The disappearance of the activists leads to a political scandal in the USA. There are riots and demonstrations against the president's civil rights policy. Despite smear campaigns in the south of the USA, a trial is held in which the background is to be clarified. But the real perpetrators have their own laws...

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Cast

Jiří Lír Moore
J
Josef Šebek Butler
F
Fritz Bartholdt Sheriff Rainey
U
Ulrich Teschner Hilfssheriff Price Michael Narloch Klaus Nietz
B
Berko Acker Carl Heinz Choynski
V
Victor Beaumont
M
Manfred Müller Peter Sturm Thomas Weisgerber

Crew

Director
Ralph Boettner
Writer
Ralph Boettner, Kurt Rückmann
Director of Photography
Helmut Grewald
Editor
Brigitte Krex

Details

Release date
1974-06-27
Runtime
1h 26m
Genres
Drama
Original language
DE
Spoken languages
German
Countries
East Germany
Production
Fernsehen der DDR