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Carl Sandburg: Echoes and Silences

0% | Mar 02, 1982 | Documentary, Drama

Perry Miller Adato's first attempt to combine documentary techniques with dramatic re-enactment. The film uses actor John Cullum both as himself and to play the young Sandburg in short dramatic sequences. In search of Sandburg, Cullum travels to the poet's native home, Galesburg, Illinois speaking with close friends and family of the writer. Through a remarkable recently discovered trove of period photographs of Galesburg, the small-town America of Sandburg's childhood - the horse carriages, the ice-man delivering ice, a Fourth of July celebration - is revived in vivid detail.

Featured Crew

Carl Sandburg
Poem
Sara Fishko
Editor

Cast

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John Cullum
Carl Sandburg
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Frances Conroy
Mother / Lilian Steichen
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Michael Higgins
Father / Hobo
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Carl Sandburg
Self (voice) (archive footage)

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