The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

(1974)

★ 6.6 IMDb · 29 votes

Genres: Drama, телевизионный фильм

Year: 1974

Runtime: 112 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: John Korty

Cast: Сисели Тайсон, Эрик Браун, Ричард А. Дайсарт, Joel Fluellen, Will Hare, Кэтрин Хелмонд, David Hooks, Elinora B. Johnson, Warren Kenner, Dudley Knight

Plot

In February, 1962, as the civil rights movement reaches Bayonne, Louisiana, a New York journalist arrives to interview Jane Pittman, who has just turned 110. She tells him her story dating back to her earliest memories before slavery ended. In between the chapters of her life, the present-day struggles of Blacks in Bayonne, urged on by Jimmy, are dramatized.