WISCONSIN DEATH TRIP

Year: 1999
UK: BFI
Cast: John Baltes, Nathan Butchart, Zeke Dasho, Krista Grambow, Raeleen McMillion, Marcus Monroe, Jo Vukelich, Marilyn White, Ian Holm
Director: James Marsh
Countries: UK / USA
UK: 76 mins
UK Release Date: 2 June 2000

Synopsis

This is the first feature by British documentarist James Marsh from Micheal Lesy's 1973 book about the strange, even sinister series of events that befell the township of Black River Falls in the late nineteenth century. An idyllic haven populated largely by German and Scandinavian immigrants, the region suddenly succumbed to numerous cases of disease, insanity, possession, suicide, violence and death. Narrated by Ian Holm.