God's Country (1985) Online
- Original Title :
- Godu0027s Country
- Genre :
- Movie / Documentary
- Year :
- 1985
- Directror :
- Louis Malle
- Type :
- Movie
- Time :
- 1h 35min
- Rating :
- 7.5/10
Original footage of the prosperous farming community of Glencoe Minnesota, 60 miles west of Minneapolis, was filmed in 1979 for a PBS documentary. But for the next six years Malle was too busy with other projects to finish this work. He returned in 1985 for a follow-up and found the community reacting to the mid eighties crisis of overproduction in farm country. with weekly foreclosures on family farms, and many families moving to the south, Malle documented a sense of frustration and apprehension from the same participants he had befriended in better times half a decade earlier.
Credited cast: | |||
Louis Malle | - | Narrator (voice) |
This program benefited from a grant by The National Endowment for The Humanities.
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