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A Lesson Before Dying(Movie, 1999)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 41min | Genres: TV Movie, Drama
A Lesson Before DyingRating: 2.5/5 (with 66 votes)
A Lesson Before Dying is a 1999 American made-for-television drama film adapted from the 1993 Ernest J. Gaines novel of the same name. It won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie and a Peabody Award. ()
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About A Lesson Before Dying

In the 1940s South, an African-American man is wrongly accused of the killing a a white store owner. In his defense, his white attorney equates him with a lowly hog, to indicate that he didn't have the sense to know what he was doing. Nevertheless convicted, he is sentenced to die, but his godmother and the aunt of the local schoolteacher convince school teacher go to the convicted man's cell each day to try to reaffirm to him that he is not an animal but a man with dignity.

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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 7 languages: Bulgarian (BG), German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Italian (IT), Portuguese (PT)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 11/01/1999 (World premiere: 05/22/1999)
Director: Joseph Sargent
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"A Lesson Before Dying - Nachhilfestunden in der Todeszelle"
"A Lesson Before Dying - Zwischen Leben und Tod"
Keywords: politics, aunt, 1940s

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