A Gathering of Old Men

A Gathering of Old Men (1987)

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Summary: A regular day in a Louisiana sugarcane plantation changes course when a local white farmer is shot. A group of old, black men takes a courageous step by coming forward en masse to take responsibility for the killing of a white racist, whom one of their members has shot.

Genre: Drama

Country: USA, West Germany

Directed By: Volker Schlöndorff

Written By: Charles Fuller, Ernest J. Gaines

Starring: Richard Widmark, Louis Gossett Jr.

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TCI	User	Score
na	imdb	64	T₅
na	Joelius	15	T₂
Not a bad film about trying to "abuse" the police into giving justice to a "colored man" (as in the film) in a self defense case.
na	Stain	80	T₇
I don't know what the dickens Volker Schlondorff, one of the old guard of German cinema, is doing directing a movie evidently made for American TV, but he did a good job of it. Definitely one of the better telemovies, with a real star-studded cast for one of these affairs