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I Spit on Your Grave

5.6

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Original title

J'irai cracher sur vos tombes

Year

1959

Running time

100 min.

Country

France

Director

Michel Gast

Screenwriter

Jacques Dopagne, Michel Gast, Louis Sapin, Boris Vian. Novel: Boris Vian

Cast

Music

Alain Goraguer

Cinematography

Marc Fossard (B&W)

Producer

Sipro, CIT

Genre

Drama. Romance | Racism. Crime. Revenge. Southern Gothic. Melodrama. Small Town Life (North-american)

Synopsis

In the American south, light-skinned Afro-American Joe Grant leaves Memphis and moves to a small town after his 18-year-old brother Sonny is brutally lynched for attempting to marry a white woman. Joe's skin is so light that he is able to pass himself off as Caucasian and find work in a local bookstore. To get revenge on white society, Joe seduces a rich young white girl Lizbeth Shannon. Meanwhile, Joe discovers that the bookstore where he works is a front for an extortion ring, and the town's intolerant men make his life miserable. They wish to kill him, out of racism and jealousy, because the women are attracted by Joe's masculine charms.

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I Spit on Your Grave

1959

Michel Gast

5.6

(42)