Director - Volker Schlondorff

Writing Credits - Charles Fuller

1987 film based on a novel by Ernest J Gaines. When a bigoted white Louisiana tenant farmer is killed a black sharecropper Louis Gossett Jr is suspected. The plantation manager who fears a lynching rallies Gossett's friends. Even threats of violence cannot dissuade these elderly black men from displaying their pride to the white powers that be. Adam Storke plays the part of Gil. (also known by the titles Murder on the Bayou and Aufstand alter Manner Ein)