Tod am Mississippi

East Germany

• 1974-06-27(XG)
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  Drama
• ▪ 1h-26m

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Overview

USA 1964: Three young men are arrested on suspicion of speeding. As it turns out, they are employees of a civil rights center in Mississippi who are fighting against the racist Ku Klux Klan. The disappearance of the activists leads to a political scandal in the USA. There are riots and demonstrations against the president's civil rights policy. Despite smear campaigns in the south of the USA, a trial is held in which the background is to be clarified. But the real perpetrators have their own laws...

• Helmut GrewaldDirector of Photography

  Brigitte KrexEditor

  Ralph BoettnerWriter

  Kurt RückmannWriter

  Ralph BoettnerDirector