Shadrach
1998, Film, 88 min, Drama, English, United States, MoviePedia score 63
In 1935, 99-year-old former slave Shadrach asks to be buried on the soil where he was born to slavery, and that land is owned by the large Dabney family, consisting of Vernon, Trixie and their seven children, and to bury a black man on that land is a violation of strict Virginia law.
Directed by Susanna Styron
Cast
- Martin Sheen as Narrator
- John Franklin Sawyer as Shadrach
- Scott Terra as Paul
- Ginnie Randall as Virginia
- Darrell Larson as Father
- Deborah Hedwall as Mother
- Jonathan Parks Jordan as Middle Mole
- Erin Underwood as Lucinda
- Alice Rogers as Cloris
- Monica Hewes as Edmonia
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