Nothing but a Man (1964)

Original title

Nothing But a Man

Directed by

Michael Roemer

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 35m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.4 of 10 from 37 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A black railroad worker in 1960s Alabama marries a preacher's daughter and struggles to keep his self-respect in a racist town. He also has to face his painful history with his absent father.

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What happens

Nothing but a Man is a 1964 American independent drama film starring Ivan Dixon and Abbey Lincoln, and directed by Michael Roemer, who also co-wrote the film with Robert M. Young. The film tells the story of Duff Anderson, an African-American railroad worker in the early 1960s who tries to maintain his dignity in a small racist town near Birmingham, Alabama, after he marries the local preacher's daughter. In addition to dealing with oppression and discrimination, Anderson must also come to terms with his troubled relationship with his own father, a drunk who abandoned and rejected him. Although it was not widely seen upon release due to difficulties in finding distribution, the film is now generally considered to be an important example of neorealistic American cinema. In 1993, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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