Release Date

02 Mar, 1982

Runtime

01:59: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

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.

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Actors

John Cullum

Frances Conroy

Michael Higgins

Peter Michael Goetz

Carl Sandburg

Crew

Jac Venza

Sara Fishko

Paul Shyre

Michael Davis

Perry Miller Adato

Deborah Kiser

Scott Kuney

Megan Marks

Perry Miller Adato

Carl Sandburg