Le fils aîné d'une famille de métayers noirs atteint sa majorité dans le sud à l'époque de la crise économique et son père est emprisonné pour avoir volé de la nourriture.Le fils aîné d'une famille de métayers noirs atteint sa majorité dans le sud à l'époque de la crise économique et son père est emprisonné pour avoir volé de la nourriture.Le fils aîné d'une famille de métayers noirs atteint sa majorité dans le sud à l'époque de la crise économique et son père est emprisonné pour avoir volé de la nourriture.
- Nommé pour 4 oscars
- 5 victoires et 12 nominations au total
- Harriet
- (as Sylvia 'Kuumba' Williams)
- Mr. Perkins
- (as Ted Airhart)
- Teacher
- (as Merle Sharkey)
- Judge
- (as Judge William Thomas Bennett)
- Pastor
- (as Reverend Thomas N. Phillips)
Histoire
Le saviez-vous
- AnecdotesCicely Tyson commented in a TCM interview that director Martin Ritt's cinematographer (principal cameraman), while shooting the famous "homecoming sequence" with Tyson and co-star Paul Winfield, was so moved by their performances that he was certain he missed framing the action properly in the shots and respectfully asked them to do the difficult scene again. They obliged, but later examination of daily rushes revealed that they got shot and acting perfect the first time, and the first take was a print.
- GaffesJames Best as the Sheriff wears sideburns that, while characteristic for 1972, when the film was made, are definitely out of fashion for 1933, when it is set.
- Citations
David Lee: Miss Johnson? Don't you teach in your school about folk who ain't dead?
Camille: Sure! Here's one about a man who's very much alive. Dr. William E.B. DuBois.
David Lee: What does he talk about?
Camille: Here, I'll read something he said:
[reading from "Of the Training of Black Men"]
Camille: "The longing of black men must have respect."
[pauses to explain to David Lee]
Camille: Which means a man and a woman are human and must be treated that way.
[continues reading]
Camille: "The rich and bitter depth of their experience, the unknown treasures of their inner life, the strange rendings of nature they have seen, may give the world new points of view and make their loving, living, and doing precious to all human hearts. And to themselves in these days that try their souls, the chance to soar in the dim blue air above smoke is to their finer spirits boon and guerdon for what they lose on earth by being black."
David Lee: You're a nice lady, Miss Johnson.
- Générique farfeluThe 20th Century Fox fanfare doesn't play during the opening.
- ConnexionsFeatured in Sneak Previews: The Life and Death of the Black Movie (1981)
- Bandes originalesNeeded Time (Theme from Sounder)
Written by Taj Mahal
Performed by Lightnin Hopkins
Courtesy of Kent Records and special thanks to John Williams
When I was watching this in the movie theatre for the first time in 1972, I was seated with my other high school friends behind 3 rows of a Southern Baptist Sunday School class, that was amply chaperoned by about 2 adults for every 5 children. Near the beginning of the film, as the family and Ike are passing a clapboard church that has a white congregation, David asks his father why black and white people go to different churches when God is the same God to everyone.
Ike pipes up and says once, when he was in another town, he accidentally stumbled into a white church on a Sunday morning, and was lucky to get out alive. So he asked God, "why did fellow Christians practically try to kill me just for coming to worship You with them?" And God replied to Ike, "Son, at least you got INSIDE a white church - I've been trying to do that for 2000 years!!" And with that, the entire 3 rows of Southern Baptist Sunday School, children and adults, stood up and walked out of the theatre! The truth hurts. This is a truthful beautiful movie. So glad I stumbled upon it today - just as Nathan Lee was coming home. Sigh.
- cagordon22
- 17 janv. 2009
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- Aussi connu sous le nom de
- Saunder ili pasji zivot
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Box-office
- Brut – États-Unis et Canada
- 3 100 601 $ US
- Durée1 heure 45 minutes
- Couleur
- Rapport de forme
- 2.39 : 1