The Grapes of Wrath: The Ghost of Modern America (2019)
Le Roman de la colère
In April 1939, "Grapes of Wrath" entered the pantheon of literature with a bang. Americans are at loggerheads over the odyssey of the Joad family, tenant farmers from Oklahoma who, like thousands of others, were driven from their land during the Great Depression. Eighty years have passed since the famous work was published, and 90 years since the beginning of the Great Depression in 1929. To mark this occasion, the documentary examines the genesis of the novel, its themes, its renewed reception during the financial crisis of 2008.
- Date of release
- 2019-10-02
- TMDB
- 6.2 / 10 (4)
- Runtime
- 54m
- Genres
- Documentary, History
- Director
- Priscilla Pizzato
Casting
- Denis Podalydès — Reciter (voice)
- Gavin Jones — Self, professor, Stanford University
- Susan Schillinglaw — Self, professor of English, San Jose State University
- Marie-Christine Lemardeley — Self, professor of English literature
- Pap Ndiaye — Self, historian
- Delphine Coulin — Self, writer
- Sharon Garrison — Self, former resident of Arvin Farm Labor Camp
- Dale Gibson — Self, former resident of Arvin Farm Labor Camp
- John Steinbeck — Self (archive footage)
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