72SSIFF - 20/28 September 2024
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And the Band Played On / AND THE BAND PLAYED ON

Roger Spottiswoode
     141 m.
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Account of the first five years (1980-85) of the AIDS outbreak in the USA mainly focusing on the scientific research carried out right from the beginning and describing medical ignorance vis-à-vis this mysterious and unknown virus and the indifference of a Reagan Administration that refused to fund the said research. Between the two extremes are the fear experienced by people, particularly in the gay community, in the face of an illness about which they then knew virtually nothing.
Director
Roger Spottiswoode
Screenplay
Arnold Schulman
Photography
Paul Elliott
Edition
Daniel Craven, Lois Freeman-Fox
Music
Carter Burwell
Cast
Matthew Modine, Alan Alda, Patrick Bauchau, Nathalie Baye
Running Time
141 m.
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