Till: Touching drama about the true story of a mother who becomes a symbol in the fight for justice after the racist lynching of her son in 1950s Mississippi through her courageous search for the truth.
Plot and background
Mamie Till Mobley (Danielle Deadwyler) only wanted to send her son Emmett (Jalyn Hall) to Mississippi for a family visit in the summer of 1955. But the mother never sees her son again after the summer holiday. The 14-year-old Emmett is said to have looked at a white woman “indecently” and is brutally lynched. In her deep grief, Mamie Till Mobley decides that her son’s death cannot be in vain and demands clarification of the case and the truth. The mother publishes the pictures of Emmett’s body, disfigured beyond recognition, which create great, worldwide uproar. Her courage and tireless fight for justice triggers a great wave of activism in the civil rights movement in the USA.
The official trailer shows in striking images how the outcry for justice paved the way for long overdue change:
“Till – Kampf um die Wahrheit” – background, cast, cinema release
Director Chinonye Chukwu (“Clemency”), who was the first African-American to win the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, tells the heartbreaking true story of the historic lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till, from the perspective of his mother Mamie Till-Mobley, with “Till – Battle for the Truth”. Chukwu also co-wrote the screenplay for the film with Michael Reilly and Keith Beauchamp. They produced the drama together with Barbara Broccoli (“No Time to Die”), Thomas Levine, Frederick Zollo (“Mississippi Burning – The Root of Hate”) and Whoopi Goldberg.
Actress Danielle Deadwyler (“Station Eleven”) impresses in the leading role of Mamie Till Mobley. Jalyn Hall (“The House of Mysterious Clocks”) was in front of the camera as the young Emmett. Other roles are played by Frankie Faison (“Do the Right Thing”), Haley Bennett (“Cyrano”) and Oscar winner Whoopi Goldberg (“Sister Act”).
Director Chinonye Chukwu’s “Till – Battle for Truth” is a screen memorial to a woman who went down in history as the heart of a new movement. The film opens in German cinemas on 26 January 2023.
