Die Glut der Gewalt

USA, end of the 1960s - the country is characterised by numerous racial riots. Twelve-time Oscar-nominated and three-time award-winning Hollywood veteran William Wyler (including BEN HUR) chose this explosive topic as the backdrop for his latest feature film. In the film, the divorce proceedings of a black undertaker whose wife is pregnant by a white policeman lead to a brutal chain reaction in a seething small-town cauldron that threatens to destroy justice and the law ... Ford's novel for this neo-noir is based on a true story in his hometown in Tennessee. Stirling Silliphant, who had written the screenplay for IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT two years earlier, provided the appropriate adaptation. A thought-provoking film that was scorned by audiences at the time.