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Blackkklansman (Original title)
Date: 2018 (Copyright)

Country: USA

Director: Spike Lee

Synopsis: Drama based on real events. In 1973, Ron Stallworth becomes the first black officer to join the Colorado Springs police force and infiltrates the local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan over the phone. He appoints his Jewish colleague Flip Zimmerman to act in his stead during personal meetings, and together the two attempt to prevent the Klan’s latest plot.

Genres:
Drama, Crime

Subjects:
Ku Klux Klan, Black Panthers, Police, Undercover operations
Releases
Date: 10 August 2018Country: USARelease type: TheatricalFormat: not specified - Colour and Black and White - Sound - Dolby AtmosAspect ratio: 2.35:1Runtime: 134 mins Dialogue (original): English
Date: 24 August 2018Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: not specified - Colour and Black and White - Sound - Dolby AtmosAspect ratio: 2.35:1Runtime: 135 mins 16 secs - Dialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: Universal Pictures International UK & Eire
Date: December 2018Country: United KingdomRelease type: InternetFormat: not specified - Colour - SoundRuntime: 136 mins Dialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: BFIPlayer

Credits (69)
©: Focus Features LLC, Production Company: QC Entertainment, Production Company: Blumhouse, Production Company: Monkeypaw, Production Company: 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, Filmed with the support of: New York State Governor's Office of Motion Picture & Television Development, Presents: Focus Features, Presents: Legendary Pictures, [Presented] in association with: Perfect World Pictures, Executive Producer: Edward H. Hamm Jr, Executive Producer: Jeanette Volturno, Executive Producer: Win Rosenfeld, Executive Producer: Matthew A. Cherry, Executive Producer: Marcei A. Brown, Produced by: Sean McKittrick, Produced by: Jason Blum, Produced by: Raymond Mansfield, Produced by: Shaun Redick, Produced by: Jordan Peele, Produced by: Spike Lee, Co-producer: Charlie Wachtel, Co-producer: David Rabinowitz, Unit Production Manager: Marcei A. Brown, Production Supervisor: Charbel Youssef, Location Manager: Tim Stacker, Post-production Supervisor: Susan Lazarus, 1st Assistant Director: Mike Ellis, Script Supervisor: Alexandra Torterotot, Casting: Kim Coleman, Written by: Charlie Watchel, Written by: David Rabinowitz, Written by: Kevin Willmott, Written by: Spike Lee, Based on the book ['Black Klansman Race, Hate and the Undercover Investigation of a Lifetime'] by: Ron Stallworth, Director of Photography: Chayse Irvin, A Camera Operator: Ricardo Sarmiento, Visual Effects Supervisor: Randy Balsmeyer, Visual Effects by: Big Film Design, Graphics by: Big Film Design, Editor: Barry Alexander Brown, Production Design: Curt Beech, Art Director: Marci Mudd, Set Decorator: Cathy T. Marshall, Costume Design: Marci Rodgers, Department Head Make-up: Martha Melendez, Department Head Hair: Lawaanda Pierre-Weston, Titles by: Big Film Design, Title Designer: Randy Balsmeyer, Shot on: Kodak Film, Original Score: Terence Blanchard, Additional 'Birth of a Nation' Piano Music by: Bruce Hornsby, Synthesizers/Piano: Terence Blanchard, Electric Guitar: Charles Altura, Electric Bass: David Ginyard Jr, Drums: Oscar Seaton, Conductor: Terence Blanchard, Orchestrator: Terence Blanchard, Howard Drossin, Music Supervisor: Rochelle Claerbaut, Choreographer: Maija Garcia, Production Sound Mixer: Drew Kunin, Re-recording Mixer: Tom Fleischman, Supervising Sound Editor: Philip Stockton, Stunt Co-ordinator: Jeff Ward, Historical Adviser: Lecia Brooks, Special Thanks: Angela Davis, Special Thanks: Kathleen Cleaver, Ron Stallworth
Cast (24)
John David Washington (Ron Stallworth), Adam Driver (Flip Zimmerman), Laura Harrier (Patrice Dumas), Topher Grace (David Duke), Corey Hawkins (Kwame Ture), Jasper Pääkkönen (Felix Kendrickson), Ryan Eggold (Walter Breachway), Frederick Weller (Master Patrolman Andy Landers), Paul Walter Hauser (Ivanhoe), Ashlie Atkinson (Connie Kendrickson), Harry Belafonte (Jerome Turner), Alec Baldwin (Dr Kennebrew Bouregard/narrator), Isiah Whitlock Jr (Mr Turrentine), Robert John Burke (Chief Bridges), Brian Tarantina (Officer Clay Mulaney), Arthur Nascarella (Officer Wheaton), Ken Garito (Sergeant Trapp), Michael Joseph Buscemi (Jimmy Creek), Damaris Lewis (Odetta), Ato Blankson-Wood (Hakeem), Dared Wright (Officer Cincer), Faron Salisbury (Officer Sharpe), Victor Colicchio (Steve), Paul Diomede (Jerry)