Carl Sandburg: Echoes and Silences (1982)

ALL 03/02/1982 (en) Documentary, Drama 119 Min
  • Release
    03/02/1982
  • Production
    PBS, Thirteen
  • Rotten tomato
    0%
  • Original title
    Carl Sandburg: Echoes and Silences
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Overview

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.

  1. Story

  2. Sara Fishko

    Editor



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Casts

  1. John Cullum

    Carl Sandburg

  2. Frances Conroy

    Mother / Lilian Steichen

  3. Michael Higgins

    Father / Hobo

  4. Peter Michael Goetz

  5. Carl Sandburg

    Self (voice) (archive footage)

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 5 , Crews : 10

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Carl Sandburg: Echoes and Silences (1982) 119 Min

ALL 03/02/1982 (en)
Documentary, Drama
  • Release 03/02/1982
  • Production
    PBS, Thirteen
  • Original title Carl Sandburg: Echoes and Silences
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

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.

  1. Perry Miller Adato

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Sara Fishko

    Editor

  4. Perry Miller Adato

    Producer