Wisconsin Death Trip (Original title)Arena Wisconsin Death Trip (Help search title)
Date: 1999 (Copyright)Countries: USA, United KingdomDirector: James Marsh
Production company billing: ©2000 BBC a Hands On production for BBC Arena & Cinemax Produced in association with Virtual Television Company, London
Synopsis: Documentary. Set in the final decade of the nineteenth century, the film is constructed entirely from stories published in the local newspaper of Black River Falls, an apparently respectable and prosperous community in northern Wisconsin. However, news during the 1890's is dominated by bizarre tales of madness, suicide and murder.
Genre: Documentary
Subjects: Black River Falls, Wisconsin, Newspapers, Homicide, Suicide, Mental disorders
Date: 1999 (Copyright)Countries: USA, United KingdomDirector: James Marsh
Production company billing: ©2000 BBC a Hands On production for BBC Arena & Cinemax Produced in association with Virtual Television Company, London
Synopsis: Documentary. Set in the final decade of the nineteenth century, the film is constructed entirely from stories published in the local newspaper of Black River Falls, an apparently respectable and prosperous community in northern Wisconsin. However, news during the 1890's is dominated by bizarre tales of madness, suicide and murder.
Genre: Documentary
Subjects: Black River Falls, Wisconsin, Newspapers, Homicide, Suicide, Mental disorders
Credits
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©/Production Company: BBC, Production Company: Hands On Productions, Produced in association with: Virtual Television, Production for: Cinemax, Additional Funding and Support from: The American Scandinavian Foundation, Additional Funding and Support from: YLE TV2, Additional Funding and Support from: The Copenhagen Post House, Additional Funding and Support from: The Whitehouse Post Productions, Digital Film Lab, Executive Producer: Anthony Wall, Executive Producer for Hands On: Carol Hirschi, Executive Producer for Cinemax: Sheila Nevins, Supervising Producer for Cinemax: Nancy Abraham, Producer: Maureen A. Ryan, Producer: James Marsh, Unit Manager: Erica Banks, Production Co-ordinator: Becky Whitehorse, Additional Co-ordinator: Lyn Marie Neuenfeldt, Programme Finance Manager: Roger Hendry, Post-Production Co-ordinator: Pamela Esterson, Film Production Consultant: Warwick Gee, Production Assistant: Kristin Gibbons, Production Assistant: Darleen Gutknecht, Production Assistant: Joe Hazelton, Production Assistant: Ron Micoley, Casting: Teresa Boyeson, Casting: Dylan Scott Agency, Casting Consultant: Raeleen McMillion, Carol Hirschi, Writer: James Marsh, Adapted from the book by: Michael Lesy, Director of Photography: Eigil Bryld, Additional Black and White Photography: Frank DeMarco, Additional Colour Photography: Bob Donnelly, Rostrum Camera: Chris Shelley, Frameline, Steadicam Operator: Janice Arthur, Assistant Camera: Doug Foote, Additional Assistant Camera: Kevin Dexter, Gaffer: Carl 'Vinny' Besasie, Key Grip: Otto Mation, Grip/Electrics: Mike Gillis, Grip/Electrics: Patrick Haley, Grip/Electrics: Scott Quimby, Grip/Electrics: Joe Spang, Don Unverrich, Crane Operator: P.J. Bodi, Bodi & Company, Avid Editing Facilities: The Whitehouse Post Productions, Digital Compositing: Destiny 601 Copenhagen, Inferno Operator: Steen Lyders Hansen, Special Effects by: Mo42 Special Effects, Special Effects Foreman: Clay Simchick, Special Effects Assistant: Lyn Marie Neuenfeldt, Editor: Jinx Godfrey, Art Director: Carol Hirschi, Wardrobe Supervisor/Costume Designer: Ellen Kozak, Hair/Make-up: Christopher Russo, Special Effects Make-up: Christopher Russo, Film Colourist: Philip Bricklebank, The Warehouse, Colour Section Theme Music: Dj Shadow, End Title Music Composed and Performed: John Cale, Sound Recordist: Jimmy Roache, Additional Sound Recording: Kevin Falk, Additional Sound Recording: Otto Rammer, Additional Sound Recording: Thomas Berna, Additional Sound Recording: Jeff Irwin, David Wysocky, Dubbing Mixer: David Old, Dubbing at: De Lane Lea Studios, Original TV Sound Mix: Trevor Barber, Sound Effects Design: Jinx Godfrey, James Marsh, Stunts: Clay Simchick, Stunts: Marc Jacobs, Stunts: Lyn Marie Neuenfeldt, Safety Crew: Don Unverrich, Joe Spang, Photographs Courtesy of: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Nicolette Bromberg, Additional Photographs: H.H. Bennett Collection, Additional Photographs: Kansas Collection, Jackson County Historical Society, Locations Courtsey of: Milwaukee Brumder Mansion, Heritage Hill State Historical Park, Locations Courtesy of: Brenda Promis, Locations Courtesy of: Stonefield Historic Site, Locations Courtesy of: Mid-Continent Railway, Locations Courtesy of: Don Meyer, Locations Courtesy of: Norskedalen Nature and Heritage Center, Locations Courtesy of: Tammy Potaracke, Locations Courtesy of: Badger Prairie Heath Care Center, Locations Courtesy of: Jack Nelson, Locations Courtesy of: Washington County Historical Society, Locations Courtesy of: Chip Beckford, Locations Courtesy of: Al Neuenfeldt, Locations Courtesy of: Jane Neuenfeldt, Locations Courtesy of: Ozaukee County Pioneer Village, Old World Wisconsin, Special Thanks to: Anne Mette Lundtofte, Special Thanks to: Michael Lesy, Special Thanks to: The People of Black River Falls, Special Thanks to: Caledonia Fire Department, Special Thanks to: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Special Thanks to: Anne Marie Olson, Special Thanks to: WWIS, Special Thanks to: Nelson Lent, The Insects, Thanks to: "M" Company, Wisconsin 1st Alabama Cavalry, Thanks to: Armanda Costanza, Thanks to: Olivia Barker, Thanks to: Dr Robert Baumann, Thanks to: Black River Falls High School, Thanks to: Roger Sands, Thanks to: Black River Falls Marching Band, Thanks to: Dennis Fredricks, Thanks to: Mark Gubin, Thanks to: Battalion Chief Harback, Thanks to: Lieutenant Jeff Henningfield, Thanks to: Rick Heizensen, Thanks to: Bob Hirschi, Thanks to: Carl Holzschuh, Thanks to: Jackson County Sheriff's Department, Thanks to: Sheriff Richard Goldster, Thanks to: Larry Laes, Thanks to: Lightforce of Wisconsin, Thanks to: Perry Perkins, Thanks to: Gwynneth Lloyd, Thanks to: Greil Marcus, Thanks to: Jeremiah Newton, Thanks to: The Principal Media Group, Thanks to: Richard Sattin, Thanks to: Benjamin Ross, Thanks to: Shoemaker Bee Farm, Thanks to: Russ Shoemaker, Thanks to: Trammel Crow Company, Thanks to: Tommy Bartlett's Thrill Show, Thanks to: Tom Deal, WisconCine Camera Services, Horse Wrangler: Todd Bausch, Dedicated to: Elizabeth Lesy
Cast
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Ian Holm (Narrated by), Jeff Golden (The Editor), Jo Vukelich (Mary Sweeney), Marcus Monroe (young Anderson), Marilyn White (Pauline L'Allemand), John Schneider (asylum clerk/whispering voice), John Baltes (undertaker), Raeleen McMillion (crying woman), Krista Grambow (mourning woman), Clay Anton, Bobby Jo Westphal (eloping couple), Scott Hulber (Pouch), Zeke Dasho (Edgar L'Allemand), Dave Broeren, Chris Holzchuh, Carl Holzchuh, Dennis Laubenstein, Everett Schulz, Jason Schraufnagel, Mich Steenbenners, Matt Van Haren (sheriff's posse), Mark Gubin (photographer), Jim Jones (editor's assistant), Tess Miller (coffin girl), Clay Simchick (hanging man), Michael Olson, Gerald Myhre (asylum guard), Carl 'Vinny' Besasie (man on train), Larry Birkett (unemployed German), Bob Hirschi, Steve Strobel, Michaelangelo Materese (man in snow), John Rasmussen (Norwegian lunatic), M. Scott Taulman (jailer), Lloyd Mueller (Krist Wold), Thomas Jacobson (baby in snow), Will Roshke (9-year-old shooter), Emily Roshke (sister), Eddie Kunz (abandoned boy), Leah Delaney (frozen woman), Nathan Butchart (dead boy), Dana Joseph (girl at window), Todd Bausch (hearse driver), Joshua Kapp (baby), Brittany Istre (baptised girl), Ron Pasta (minister), Jason Loewi (Anderson's brother), Harold Fager (Holmfeldt), Jeana Stillman (drowned girl), Ruth Johansen, Roy Johansen, Mary Kennedy, Forrest Stevens (The Norwegian), Colin Webster (Edwin Miller), Julia Newby (Lena Watson), Christy Monroe (kissing girl), Michelle Vollmer (pregnant girl), John Mason, Kevin Gural (stretcher bearer), Richard Johnson (religious lunatic), Brayden Michael Moran (Gust Seewald), Jessica Woodrow (Minnie Dominitz), Molly Anderson (Mrs Larson), Liam Anderson, Katherine Anderson, Kevin Anderson (Larson children), Marc Jacobs (hanging man), Gene Kalmes (barn fire man), Bruce Bradley (whipped man), Angel Hamilton (fire girl), Vania Prahcharová (praying woman), Oscar Gutknecht (Mr Jones), James Gollato (bank assassin), Don Rashke (bank manager), Dave Schuster (colleague), Darleen Gutknecht (woman in carriage), Drew Brhel (drunk shooter), Carol Hirschi (wife), Sara Freeman (Amy Miller), Lance Marsh (Fred Shephard), Karl Miller (jealous husband), James Tasse (Porter Ross), Carol Zippel, Lyn Neuenfeldt, Scott Glasser (Porter Ross's victims), Debbi Suomi, Molly Nikolic (servant girl), Ali Ide (winter bride), Paul Baesing (husband), Mary Jo Kassner (vomiting woman), Mike Hanko (sheriff), Hutchinson Rowe (deputy), Cody Marenes (boy), Jim Moc (aged father), Tyler Marenes (running boy), John Battram (old lunatic), Lyn Neuenfeldt (woman on fire), Samantha Hoffman, Ellen Klawuhn, Walter Zippel, Nancy Zippel, Nelson Lent, Pastor Sheryl Mathews, Darleen Johnson, Sheriff Richard Goldster, Ruth Buswell, Don Houlder, Anne Marie Olson, The Barber Shop Chorus (Black River Falls voice)