Rosewood Burning
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| German title | Rosewood Burning |
| Original title | Rosewood |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1997 |
| length | 140 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | John Singleton |
| script | Gregory Poirier |
| production | Tracy Barone |
| music | John Williams |
| camera | Johnny E. Jensen |
| cut | Bruce Cannon |
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Rosewood Burning is a 1997 film directed by John Singleton . The film is based on the historic Rosewood Massacre , in which the Rosewood site in Florida was burned down.
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Mann is a mysterious World War I veteran looking for land to buy. He comes to the city of Rosewood, a small and mostly black town in Florida. The Carriers live in Rosewood, an aspiring black family run by Aunt Sarah and her proud, headstrong son Sylvester. The man soon meets Beulah "Scrappie" Carrier, Sylvester's younger sister, and the two quickly fall in love. Aunt Sarah works as a housekeeper for James Taylor and his wife Fanny, a white couple who live in the neighboring town of Sumter. Fanny, who has cheated on her husband in the past, goes on a rendezvous with her lover while her husband is at work. Fanny argues with her lover, who eventually beats her. Aunt Sarah and her granddaughter Lee Ruth overhear the argument and the subsequent beating, but do not intervene. A distraught Fanny, desperate to explain her injuries to her husband, leaves her house and calls for help. She then tells several townspeople that she was attacked by a black man. White residents willingly believe Fanny's claim. Hearing of an escaped black convict named Jesse Hunter, a group from Sumner and the surrounding towns headed to Rosewood to investigate. Black residents of Rosewood are quickly attacked by a white mob, including men from other states and members of the Ku Klux Klan . As a stranger, the man is afraid that he will be accused of attacking Fanny and then lynching. He plans to leave town amid protests by several Rosewood residents who have met at church to discuss plans to defend their community. Outside the church, Mann bumps into John Wright, a veteran of the Spanish American War in the Navy and owner of a general store, one of Rosewood's few white residents. Wright is also involved in a hot extramarital affair with Sylvester's cousin, Jewel. Man goes then. When the group arrives at the Carrier house, Aunt Sarah tries to calm the angry crowd. However, when she announces that Fanny Taylor's attacker was a white man, someone in the crowd shoots her. She then dies from her injuries. The group arrives and Sylvester shoots and kills two of his members. The group falls behind and a shootout breaks out. After the murder of Aunt Sarah, the group launched a regular attack on Rosewood. Mann is on his way out of town when he witnesses the lynching of Sam Carter, the blacksmith. Man changes his mind about leaving and returns to Rosewood to fight the residents. Some decent white men who live in rosewood help black rosewood residents escape. Railway conductors smuggle people out of the city on trains. Wright asks the train attendants to pick up the women and children while his wife hides several other African Americans in their home. Other whites try to suppress the increasing violence with little success. The group swells. They believe that James Carrier had information about the escaped convict and they go to see him. After an unsuccessful attempt to intervene on James' behalf, Wright reluctantly allows Sheriff Walker to arrest Carrier because the officer said he just wanted to question him. If Carrier says he has no information, he will be immediately shot by one of the mob members. Wright is upset and the mob accuse him of being black. The violence is escalating and spreading in neighboring cities. But when the force reached the border of Alachua County, a group of armed deputy white men and a sheriff blocked the streets and turned them back. Surviving members of the Carrier family eventually escape on a Wright-arranged train. Scrappie and husband finally kiss before husband leaves with Sylvester. The two plan to meet later. After the violence finally subsided, James Taylor confronts his wife Fanny and tells her that "You didn't catch your nigger, did you? When James realizes that Fanny lied to him about the real cause of their injuries and did business with other men ( after being informed by the sheriff) he beats her Officially, the final death toll was eight people, two whites and six blacks Other reports from survivors and several African American newspapers estimated a higher death toll.
background
The screenplay and film developed by Gregory Poirier take up the events in Rosewood, Florida in 1923. Here Rosewood was completely burned down as a place inhabited by African-Americans ( Rosewood massacre ).
reception
Janet Maslin judged for the New York Times that the intriguing story was so enriched with stereotypes and wooden characters that the film was predictable at any point in time. Rosewood has an 85% positive rate on the Rotten Tomatoes website , which evaluates reviews.
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Rosewood received the Political Film Society Award for Human Rights 1997 and participated in the 1997 Berlinale .
Web links
- Rosewood in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Rosewood (1997) , New York Times, February 21, 1997.
- ↑ Rosewood . In: Rotten Tomatoes . Retrieved June 19, 2012.