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Critic David Parkinson
rated 8

Unstintingly raw and cynical, this disconcerting and deeply affecting State Of The Union treatise regularly comes dangerously close to caricature. But that’s forgiveable...

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Critic Roger Ebert
rated 8

The Danish iconoclast holds strong ideas about our society, and expresses them in satiric allegories of such audacity that we cast loose from realism and simply float with his conceits.

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Critic Scott Tobias
rated 6

Even at his worst, von Trier can still strike a nerve.

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Critic Jesper Vestergaard
rated 5

...'Manderlay' er sine stilistiske kvaliteter til trods, blevet en mindre overbevisende mellemspiller.

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Critic Oskar Möller
rated 10

Filmkonst när den är som bäst. Hör ni ett ljud är det filmhistoriens vingslag.

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Cast & Crew

Lars von Trier
Director
Danny Glover
As Wilhelm
Udo Kier
As Mr. Kirspe
Willem Dafoe
As Grace's Father
John Hurt
As Narrator (voice)
Jean-Marc Barr
As Mr. Robinsson

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What is Manderlay about? Toggle content

In the follow-up to Dogville, Grace and her father travel through rural Alabama in 1933, stumbling upon a plantation called Manderlay where slavery still reigns. Appalled by the injustice, Grace decides to stay and teach the white family and their slaves about democracy and freedom. But as she delves deeper into the community, she realizes that change is not coming easily, and her attempts to improve the situation only seem to make things worse. The film follows Grace's journey as she struggles to embed her ideals in the community and confronts the harsh reality of a society still deeply rooted in slavery.

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Some movies that have similar genres and were produced around the same time as Manderlay include Finding Forrester, The Flying Scotsman, My Sister's Keeper, Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story, The Last King of Scotland, The Blind Side.

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Manderlay was released in theaters on February 3, 2006.