Ashes and Embers
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Writer Haile Gerima Running time 2 hours Producer Haile Gerima Language English | 6.8/10 IMDb Genre Drama Duration Screenplay Haile Gerima Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 1982 Cast John Anderson, Norman Blalock, Evelyn A. Blackwell Similar movies Related Haile Gerima movies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
An embittered veteran of the Vietnam War attempts to come to terms with his past and his current place as a black man in America.
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Ashes and Embers is a 1982 drama film directed by Haile Gerima.
Ashes and Embers is an original screenplay by Haile Gerima, about a Vietnam veteran, who, several years after the war, is struggling to come to terms with his role in the war, and his role as a Black person in America. He survives by working odd jobs in Washington, D.C. and living with his girlfriend and her son. When criticism of his alienated behavior come from her and a father figure too often, he runs to the streets or to his grandmother's rural house in Virginia. Her criticism and his memories of the past both send him fleeing again to Los Angeles, where he is surrounded by superficial people who have forgotten how to be compassionate human beings. It is here that the advice of his friends and grandmother combine to transform him from an embittered ex-soldier to a strong and confident man.
Plot summary
Ashes and Embers is a two-hour film about the travails of black urban life. It is the story of a moody and disillusioned black veteran of the Vietnam War.
Cast
Fellow filmmakers Billy Woodberry and Bernard Nicolas make brief cameo appearances in the film.
Awards and honors
In 1983, director Haile Gerima won the FIPRESCI Prize for Forum of New Cinema, at the Berlin International Film Festival, for Ashes and Embers.
References
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