About Manderlay

MANDERLAY is the latest film by director Lars von Trier (Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark, Dogville) and stars Bryce Dallas Howard, Danny Glover, Willem Dafoe and Lauren Bacall. It is 1933, and after leaving Dogville, Grace, her father, and his army of villains head south.  They happen to stop in front of an iron gate in Alabama and a panicked young black woman runs up to the car.  Ignoring her father's advice to stay out of other people's affairs, Grace follows her through the gate and into Manderlay - a plantation where a group of people are living as if slavery hadn't been abolished 70 years earlier and white masters rule black slaves.  Grace finds it her duty to liberate Manderlay and stay to see them through their first harvest.  Left alone with four henchmen and her father's lawyer, Grace enters a world that is even stranger than it seems.