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Ashes and Embers

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Ashes and Embers is an original screenplay by Haile Gerima, about a Vietnam veteran, who, several years after the war, is struggling to come to terms with his role in the war, and his role as a Black person in America. He survives by working odd jobs in Washington, D.C. and living with his girlfriend and her son. When criticism of his alienated behavior come from her and a father figure too often, he runs to the streets or to his grandmother's rural house in Virginia. Her criticism and his memories of the past both send him fleeing again to Los Angeles, where he is surrounded by superficial people who have forgotten how to be compassionate human beings. It is here that the advice of his friends and grandmother combine to transform him from an embittered ex-soldier to a strong and confident man.

Directed byHaile Gerima

Play
Status
Released
Runtime
2h 9m
Language
EN
Released
November 17, 1982
Studios
Mypheduh Films

Featuring

Cast & crew

6 credited
Starring

Evelyn A. Blackwell

Grandma

John Anderson

Grandson

Norman Blalock

Jim

Kathy Flewellen

Liza Jane

Uwezo Flewellen

Kimathi

Barry Wiggins

Randolph

Creative team
Directed by
Haile Gerima
Haile Gerima
Written by
Haile Gerima
Haile Gerima
Produced by
Haile Gerima
Haile Gerima

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