In the early 1970s, Ron Stallworth is hired as the first black officer in the Colorado Springs, Colorado police department. Stallworth is initially assigned to work in the records room, where he faces racial slurs from his coworkers.
Stallworth requests a transfer to go undercover, and is assigned to infiltrate a local rally at which national civil rights leader Kwame Ture (birth name Stokely Carmichael) is to give a speech. At the rally, Stallworth meets Patrice Dumas, the president of the black student union at Colorado College. While taking Ture to his hotel, Patrice is stopped by patrolman Andy Landers, a corrupt, racist officer in Stallworth’s precinct, who threatens Ture and sexually assaults Patrice.
BlacKkKlansman is a 2018 American biographical comedy-drama film directed by Spike Lee and written by Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott, and Lee, based on the 2014 memoir Black Klansman by Ron Stallworth. The film stars John David Washington as Stallworth, along with Adam Driver, Laura Harrier, and Topher Grace. Set in 1970s Colorado Springs, the plot follows the first African-American detective in the city’s police department as he sets out to infiltrate and expose the local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan.
BlacKkKlansman (2018)
Directed by: Spike Lee
Starring: John David Washington, Adam Driver, Laura Harrier, Alec Baldwin, Robert John Burke, Arthur J. Nascarella, Brian Tarantina, Ken Garito, Michael Buscemi, Damaris Lewis, Elise Hudson
Screenplay by: Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz
Production Design by: Curt Beech
Cinematography by: Chayse Irvin
Film Editing by: Barry Alexander Brown
Çostume Design by: Marci Rodgers
Set Decoration by: Cathy T. Marshall
Art Direction by: Marci Mudd
Music by: Terence Blanchard
Distributed by: Focus Features
Release Date: August 10, 2018
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