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Wisconsin Death Trip is an intimate, shocking and sometimes hilarious account of the disasters that befell one small town in Wisconsin during the final decade of the nineteenth century. The film is inspired by Michael Lesys book of the same name, which published in 1973. Lesy discovered a striking archive of black and white photographs in the town of Black River Falls, dating from the 1890s and married a selection of these images to extracts from the towns newspaper from the same decade. The effect was surprising and disturbing. The town of Black River Falls seems gripped by some peculiar malaise, and the weekly news is dominated by bizarre tales of madness, eccentricity, and violence amongst the local population. Suicide and murder are commonplace. People in the town are haunted by ghosts, possessed by demons, and terrorized by teenage outlaws and arsonists. Like the book, the film is constructed entirely from authentic news reports from the Black River Falls newspaper, with occasional excerpts from the records of the nearby Mendota Asylum for the Insane. The film also makes use of the haunting black and white photographs taken by the resident portrait photographer of Black River Falls at the end of the nineteenth century. Contemporary color documentary footage of the town today, is also included at the end of each section of the film that take place over the course of four seasons.
Ian Holm
Narrator
Jeffrey Golden
Editor
Jo Vukelich
Mary Sweeney
Marcus Monroe
Young Anderson
Marilyn White
Pauline L'Allemand
John Schneider
Asylum Clerk
John Baltes
Undertaker
Raeleen McMillion
Crying Woman
Krista Grambow
Mourning Woman
Clay Anton
Eloping Couple (male)
Bobbie Jo Westphal
Eloping Couple (female)
Scott Hulbert
Pouch
Zeke Dasho
Edgar L'Allemand
Kathryn Anderson
Mrs. Larson
Kevin Anderson
Larson Child
Liam Anderson
Larson Child
Molly Nikki Anderson
Mrs. Larson
Nathan Butchart
Dead Boy
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