Carl Sandburg: Echoes and Silences

Release Date: 1982-03-02

Overview: 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

John Cullum

as Carl Sandburg

Frances Conroy

as Mother / Lilian Steichen

Michael Higgins

as Father / Hobo

Peter Michael Goetz

as

Carl Sandburg

as Self (voice) (archive footage)