Ashes and Embers

IMDb link: 0083584
IMDb rating: 6.4 (189 votes)
Genres: Drama
Director: Haile Gerima
Cast: John Anderson, John Anderson, Evelyn A. Blackwell, Norman Blalock, Kathy Flewellen and others

Release date: 17 Nov 1982
Release year: 1982
Runtime: 120 minutes
Country: United States
Keywords: american dream, return home, washington d.c., vietnam war veteran, the white house washington d.c., washington monument washington d.c., three word title, low budget film, walking along a highway, farm

Plot:

Nay Charles is an African American Vietnam veteran who no longer fits in, can't find a job and has difficulty establishing a connection with his politically committed girlfriend. Depressed, the film's antihero leaves his home state of Washington for a new, better life in Los Angeles where he ends up arrested by the police.

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