Release Date

02 Mar, 1982

Runtime

01:59: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

Perry Miller Adato's first attempt to combine documentary techniques with dramatic re-enactment. The film uses actor John Cullum both as himself and to play the young Sandburg in short dramatic sequences. In search of Sandburg, Cullum travels to the poet's native home, Galesburg, Illinois speaking with close friends and family of the writer. Through a remarkable recently discovered trove of period photographs of Galesburg, the small-town America of Sandburg's childhood - the horse carriages, the ice-man delivering ice, a Fourth of July celebration - is revived in vivid detail.

Original Title

Carl Sandburg: Echoes and Silences

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Actors

John Cullum

Frances Conroy

Michael Higgins

Peter Michael Goetz

Carl Sandburg

Crew

Perry Miller Adato

Paul Shyre

Carl Sandburg

Perry Miller Adato

Megan Marks

Jac Venza

Scott Kuney

Sara Fishko

Deborah Kiser

Michael Davis