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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1979)

Drama | 96 minutes
3,50 1 votes

Genre: Drama

Duration: 96 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: Fielder Cook

Starst: Paul Benjamin, Diahann Carroll and Ruby Dee

IMDb score: 7,1 (349)

Releasedate: 28 April 1979

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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings plot

1930s: Marguerite "Maya" Johnson and her highly intelligent brother grow up in Arkansas, where they must keep quiet so as not to perish from racism, but still have the opportunity to learn to read in a black school. However, it is by a black roommate that she is assaulted, after which she becomes silent isolation. However, she learns to find literary values that she wants to sing from the rooftops.

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Actors and actresses

Paul Benjamin Paul Benjamin

Freeman

Diahann Carroll Diahann Carroll

Vivian

Ruby Dee Ruby Dee

Grandmother Baxter

Roger E. Mosley Roger E. Mosley

Bailey, Sr.

Esther Rolle Esther Rolle

Momma

Madge Sinclair Madge Sinclair

Miss Flowers

Sonny Jim Gaines Sonny Jim Gaines

Uncle Willie

Art Evans Art Evans

Principal

Constance Good Constance Good

Maya

John M. Driver II John M. Driver II

Bailey, Jr.

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