MANDERLAY
| Original Title |
Manderlay |
| Director |
Lars Von Trier |
| Genre |
Drama |
| Country of origin |
Denmark/Sweden/Netherlands |
| Language spoken |
English |
| Year of production |
2005 |
| Production |
Zentropa Entertainments, Film I Väst, Issabella Films B.V. |
| Domestic distribution/ World sales |
Nordisk Film/Trust Films Sales |
| Domestic release |
3 June 2005 |
| Official website |
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| Awards |
year: 2005 |
List of European Distributors
| Release date | Countries | Distributor |
| 9 November 2005 |
France |
Les Films du Losanges (theatrical) |
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Belgium |
A Film Distribution |
| September 2005 (?) |
Netherlands |
A Film Distribution |
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Greece |
Audio Visual Enterprises s.a. |
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Cyprus |
Audio Visual Enterprises s.a. |
| 10 October 2005 |
Italy |
Alan Young Pictures |
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Portugal |
Atalanta Filmes |
| November 2005 (?) |
UK |
Metrodome Distribution |
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Spain |
Golem Film Distribution |
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Russia/ CIS |
Central Partnership |
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Czech Republic |
Film Distribution Artcam |
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Slovak Republic |
Film Distribution Artcam |
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Slovenia |
First Production |
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Croatia |
First Production |
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Serbia and Montenegro |
First Production |
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Bosnia-Herzegovina |
First Production |
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Macedonia |
First Production |
| September 2005 (?) |
Hungary |
Budapest Film |
| 21 October 2005 |
Poland |
Gutek Film |
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Bulgaria |
Art Fest |
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Romania |
Independenta Film |
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Baltic States, Estonia, Lettonia, Latvia, Lithuania |
UAB "Tandemas" |
| 3 June 2005 |
Denmark |
Nordisk Film - Rights and Acq. |
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Sweden |
Nordisk Film - Rights and Acq. |
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Norway |
Fidalgo Film Distribution |
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Finland |
Kamras Film Group |
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Iceland |
Icelandic film corp |
Synopsis
This is the strange, disturbing story of the
Manderlay plantation.
Manderlay lays on a lonely plain somewhere in the deep south of the USA.
It was in the year of 1933 that Grace and her father left the township of
Dogville behind them, with Grace's unforgettable verdict: "If there is
any town the world would be a little better without, this is it"; and
had driven homewards towards the city of Denver.
But being away from home is a serious matter in the gangster business, and
the mice had been well and truly playing while the cat was away.
Grace's father and his army of villain had spent the entire winter seeking
out new hunting grounds in vain, and now, in this early month of Spring, they
are driving south in one last attempt to find a favourable location in which
to take up residence.
By chance their cars stop in the State of Alabama in front of a large iron
gate bearing a thick chain and padlock. Beside the gate a dead oak tree towers
over a heavy boulder with Manderlay hewn in monumental letters into the granite.
Just as Gace, her father and his men are about to leave after a short break
and a quick lunch, a young black woman runs up to the car. She knocks on Grace's
window. She hammers at the glass in despair.
Grace gets out of the car, and ignoring the distinct advice of her father
she follows the girl through the gates of Manderlay, and there she finds a
group of people living as if slavery had not been abolished seventy years
earlier, with white masters and black slaves.