Synopse
DOCUMENTARY Across the USA in Elvis' Rolls Royce. Contemporaries of the King climb aboard, fans, celebrities like Ethan Hawke, Ashton Kutcher and Alec Baldwin. They talk about Elvis and about their country 40 years after his death, where a millionaire reality TV star is aiming to win an election using unprecedented levels of vulgarity. Parallels of decline arise: on the one hand, the country boy who fell victim to fame, money and drugs – and on the other a once aspiring nation, now being hollowed out by decadence and coarseness. A musical road movie and a cultural portrait of the American dream at a critical point in US history.
Regie
With his documentaries The Trials of Henry Kissinger (2002), Why We Fight (2006) and The House I Live In (2012) EUGENE JARECKI (*1969) won numerous prizes. Promised Land was shown in the official programme at Cannes.
Info
Original Title: Promised Land
International Title: Promised Land
Category: Documentary feature
Section: Transatlantik
Version & Subtitles: English OV
Director: Eugene Jarecki
Screenplay: Eugene Jarecki, Christopher St. John
Cast/Protagonists: Peter Guralnick, Chuck D, M. Ward, Greil Marcus, Ethan Hawke
Production country: United States, Germany
Year of Production: 2017
Length: 117 min
Producer: Barbara Biemann, Christopher St. John, David Kuhn, Eugene Jarecki
Production company: Ghost in the Machine Production
Cinematography: Etienne Sauret, Tom Bergmann
Editor: Simon Barker, Élia Gasull Balada, Alex Bingham, Laura Israel
Music: Robert Miller, Antony Genn, Martin Slattery
World Sales: UTA
