In April 1939, "Grapes of Wrath" entered the pantheon of literature with a bang. Americans are at loggerheads over the odyssey of the Joad family, tenant farmers from Oklahoma who, like thousands of others, were driven from their land during the Great Depression. Eighty years have passed since the famous work was published, and 90 years since the beginning of the Great Depression in 1929. To mark this occasion, the documentary examines the genesis of the novel, its themes, its renewed reception during the financial crisis of 2008.
Denis Podalydès
as Reciter (voice)
Gavin Jones
as Self, professor, Stanford University
Susan Schillinglaw
as Self, professor of English, San Jose State University
Marie-Christine Lemardeley
as Self, professor of English literature
Pap Ndiaye
as Self, historian
Delphine Coulin
as Self, writer
Sharon Garrison
as Self, former resident of Arvin Farm Labor Camp
Dale Gibson
as Self, former resident of Arvin Farm Labor Camp
John Steinbeck
as Self (archive footage)
