The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)
Genre: Drama / History
Duration: 129 minuten
Country:
United States / United Kingdom / India
Directed by: Aaron Sorkin
Stars: Eddie Redmayne, Alex Sharp and Sacha Baron Cohen
IMDb score:
7,7 (200.763)
Releasedate: 25 September 2020
The Trial of the Chicago 7 plot
"In 1968, democracy refused to back down."
Seven people charged over the 1968 Democratic National Convention uprising in Chicago, Illinois. It started as a peaceful demonstration but turned into a televised massacre after police and National Guardsmen used brutal force against the crowd. Over the next six months, the organizers face a wild and infamous trial by blatantly biased judge Julius Hoffman after being charged by President Nixon's Justice Department. This increases the annoyance of radicalizing youth.
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Actors and actresses
Tom Hayden
Abbie Hoffman
Richard Schultz
Ramsey Clark
Judge Julius Hoffman
David Dellinger
William Kunstler
Rennie Davis
Bobby Seale
Jerry Rubin
Reviews & comments
CocoNutz_IV
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- 49 messages
- 62 votes
Ridiculously stupid film, although the film can do little about it since it is based on truth. Humor was not funny and very rehearsed. I've always been a fan of court films, but I found the dialogues to be rather short and limited. Only sporadically did a dialogue go into depth. Despite the familiar names, it didn't appeal to me either.
1* and then I'm still mild.
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BBarbie
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- 12893 messages
- 7675 votes
wow! What a film, but I have to say right away that I am prejudiced because films like this bring back fond memories for me of the late 1960s when young people in particular made an – unfortunately unsuccessful – attempt to hold autocrats and their cronies to account.
The lawsuit of the Chicago 8 (later 7) is a typical example of the sharp contradictions at the time between the authorities and colorful (in many senses of the word) young adults, led by legendary figures such as Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Rudi Dutschke, Malcolm X , Tom Hayden, ea
Director-writer Aaron Sorkin made this fascinating film about that period: "The whole world is watching!" As far as I'm concerned Oscar material, but hey, like I said, I'm biased…
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