Short film
Dresden Story
1954 · 29 min
A sober, talky documentary that sits you down with ordinary people airing uncomfortable prejudices and leaves you to weigh them.
- Directed by
- Julian Biggs
- Genres
- Documentary
- Starring
- Gordon Burwash
- Overview
- People are interviewed in Dresden, Ontario, to sample local attitudes towards racial discrimination against black people that brought this town into the news. After a round-up of the opinions of individual citizens, white and black, commentator Gordon Burwash joins two discussion panels, presenting opposite points of view. The rights and wrongs of the quarrel are left for the audience to decide.
- How it feels
- Earnest, tense and melancholic. Measured and needs your attention.
- About
- Race, morality, justice, identity
- Content
- Mild language. No violence, gore or sexual content.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Julian Biggs
- Genres
- Documentary
- Starring
- Gordon Burwash