Chicago 10 (2008)
The convention was drama. The trial was comedy.
Archival footage, animation and music are used to look back at the eight anti-war protesters who were put on trial following the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
- Date of release
- 2008-02-29
- TMDB
- 5.8 / 10 (17)
- Runtime
- 1h 50m
- Genres
- Documentary, Animation, History, War
- Director
- Brett Morgen
Casting
- Dylan Baker — David Dellinger / David Stahl (voice)
- Hank Azaria — Abbie Hoffman / Allen Ginsberg (voice)
- Nick Nolte — Thomas Foran (voice)
- Mark Ruffalo — Jerry Rubin (voice)
- Roy Scheider — Judge Julius Hoffman (voice)
- Liev Schreiber — William Kunstler (voice)
- Jeffrey Wright — Bobby Seale (voice)
- Debra Eisenstadt — Mary Ellen Dahl / Waitress (voice)
- Lloyd Floyd — Robert Pierson / Arthur Aznavoorian / Police Officer (voice)
- Ebon Moss-Bachrach — Paul Krassner (voice)
- James Urbaniak — Rennie Davis / Richard Schultz (voice)
- David Boat — Norman Mailer / Marshal 1 (voice)
Interesting facts
Chicago 10: Speak Your Peace is a 2007 American animated documentary written and directed by Brett Morgen that tells the story of the Chicago Eight. The Chicago Eight were charged by the United States federal government with conspiracy, crossing state lines with intent to incite a riot, and other charges related to anti-Vietnam War and countercultural protests in Chicago, Illinois during the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
Production
The title of the film is drawn from a quote by Jerry Rubin, who said, "Anyone who calls us the Chicago Seven is a racist. Because you're discrediting Bobby Seale. You can call us the Chicago Eight, but really we're the Chicago Ten, because our two lawyers went down with us." The animated courtroom sequences were also informed by Rubin's description of the trial as a "cartoon show".
Morgen tells IONCINEMA, "We took events that happened forty years ago and ultimately wrote a film about today. I wasn’t born then so I couldn’t do it any other way," and "That’s why when Allen Ginsberg goes to the witness stand and says: ‘Politics is theater and magic, is the manipulation by the media of imagery that hypnotizes the country into believing in a war that didn’t exist’, he’s not speaking about the Vietnam war, he's referring to Colin…
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