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Selma

- DuVernay / US, 2014 / 128 min.

Civil rights activist Dr Martin Luther King is a thoroughly human leader in Ava DuVernay’s Selma, a man with doubts and a complicated private life. King enforced the right to vote for African Americans through the Voting Rights Act; the film’s title refers to the protest march that took place from Selma to Montgomery in Alabama in 1965.

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Director

- DuVernay

Production year

2014

Country

US

Original title

Selma

Length

128 min.

Format

DCP

Part of

1968

Fifty years ago, students, factory workers and filmmakers challenged the Establishment, from Paris to Mexico City, carrying not only bricks but also agile and light 16mm cameras.

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