Carl Sandburg: Echoes and Silences

(1982)

★ 8 IMDb · 1 votes

Genres: Documentary, Drama

Year: 1982

Runtime: 119 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Perry Miller Adato

Cast: Джон Каллам, Фрэнсис Конрой, Michael Higgins, Peter Michael Goetz, Carl Sandburg

Plot

Perry Miller Adato's first attempt to combine documentary techniques with dramatic re-enactment. The film uses actor John Cullum both as himself and to play the young Sandburg in short dramatic sequences. In search of Sandburg, Cullum travels to the poet's native home, Galesburg, Illinois speaking with close friends and family of the writer. Through a remarkable recently discovered trove of period photographs of Galesburg, the small-town America of Sandburg's childhood - the horse carriages, the ice-man delivering ice, a Fourth of July celebration - is revived in vivid detail.