Bringing the work of acclaimed author Philip Roth to the big screen in no easy feat, not least as a feature film debut. Ewan McGregor chose Roth’s American Pastoral for his first film behind the camera, and James Schamus follows suit making his directorial debut adapting Roth’s 2008 novel Indignation.
We reviewed the film out in Berlin and today have an exclusive clip from the film which will be released by Vertigo Releasing in the UK and Ireland on the 18th of November.
Logan Lerman and Sarah Gadon lead the story of a young man leaving his family to go to college in the 1950s, with the threat of the Korean War hovering on the distant horizon. His awakening, and discovery of identity, propels the film through the social and religious turmoil of the time.
Indignation Movie Trailer
Lerman and Gadon are a fine on-screen couple, with Schamus doing great work evoking a turbulent time in history. The film is out today and below you can see an exclusive clip from the film featuring Lerman and his friends talking about the real tragedy of war.
Indignation Movie Gallery
Synopsis? Yes.
INDIGNATION takes place in 1951, as Marcus Messner (Logan Lerman), a brilliant working class Jewish boy from Newark, New Jersey, travels on scholarship to a small, conservative college in Ohio, thus exempting him from being drafted into the Korean War. Once there, Marcus’s growing infatuation with his beautiful classmate Olivia Hutton (Sarah Gadon), and his clashes with the college’s imposing Dean, Hawes Caudwell (Tracy Letts), put his and his family’s best laid plans to the ultimate test.
