Manderlay

Lars von Trier wrote and directed the 2005 drama Manderlay as a direct sequel to Dogville (2003). It makes up the second instalment of his "USA: Land of Opportunities" trilogy. A co-production of seven European countries, it competed at the 58th Cannes Film Festival; the 139-minute film opened in Turkey on 4 November 2005.

The story is set in 1933. Grace, her father and his gangsters leave Dogville and drift through the South until they reach the Manderlay plantation, where slavery is still practised. Outraged, Grace stays on, using the gangsters' muscle to prepare the people there for freedom, but her well-meant intervention does not go as hoped. Bryce Dallas Howard plays Grace in place of Nicole Kidman, Willem Dafoe takes over from James Caan, and Danny Glover, Lauren Bacall and Isaach de Bankolé complete the cast. Only John Hurt, Udo Kier and Jean-Marc Barr return as the same characters from Dogville.

As before, the film was shot on a sparsely dressed stage resembling a black box theatre, and its action stays within one small area, a plantation. Anthony Dod Mantle shot it, and Zentropa and Film i Väst were among the producers. It is dedicated to the producer Humbert Balsan, and the planned third part, Washington, has never been completed.