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God's Country (1985 film)

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200:. Original footage of a farming community, 60 miles west of Minneapolis, Minnesota was filmed in 1979 for a PBS documentary. But for the next six years Malle was too busy with other projects to finish this work. He returned in 1985 for a follow-up and found the community reacting to the mid eighties crisis of overproduction in farm country. Malle documented a sense of frustration and apprehension from the same participants he had befriended in better times half a decade earlier. 22: 604: 675: 641: 710: 634: 234:" or "the promised land" because, metaphorically, early European settlers such as the Puritans of Massachusetts Bay believed they were founding at God's behest a 720: 39: 715: 627: 670: 700: 280: 665: 86: 58: 680: 105: 690: 65: 695: 685: 43: 72: 705: 219: 582: 568: 54: 529: 32: 393: 273: 223: 554: 385: 305: 536: 377: 321: 313: 425: 329: 204: 79: 515: 449: 409: 401: 266: 212: 660: 522: 482: 361: 475: 468: 441: 353: 189: 253: 611: 501: 235: 185: 369: 337: 654: 561: 508: 345: 290: 258: 231: 197: 132: 21: 433: 417: 247: 193: 610:
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