Tod am Mississippi (1974)

10.0/10 86 min Drama

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...

Cast

Jiří Lír

Moore

Michael Narloch

Klaus Nietz

Carl Heinz Choynski

Peter Sturm

Thomas Weisgerber

Helmut Schellhardt

Lothar Schellhorn

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