Carl Sandburg: Echoes and Silences (1982)
1h 59m
Running Time
March 2, 1982Release Date
Carl Sandburg: Echoes and Silences (1982)
1h 59m
Running Time
March 2, 1982Release Date
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Plot.
Perry Miller Adato's first attempt to combine documentary techniques with dramatic re-enactment. The film uses actor John Cullum both as himself and to play the young Sandburg in short dramatic sequences. In search of Sandburg, Cullum travels to the poet's native home, Galesburg, Illinois speaking with close friends and family of the writer. Through a remarkable recently discovered trove of period photographs of Galesburg, the small-town America of Sandburg's childhood - the horse carriages, the ice-man delivering ice, a Fourth of July celebration - is revived in vivid detail.
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Cast & Crew.

John Cullum
Carl Sandburg

Frances Conroy
Mother / Lilian Steichen

Michael Higgins
Father / Hobo

Peter Michael Goetz

Carl Sandburg
Self (voice) (archive footage) / Poem

Jac Venza
Executive Producer

Sara Fishko
Editor

Paul Shyre
Writer

Michael Davis
Director of Photography

Perry Miller Adato
Producer / Director

Deborah Kiser
Makeup Artist

Scott Kuney
Music

Megan Marks
Associate Producer
