Gods Country (1985)

Gods Country 1985 Original footage of the prosperous farming community of Glencoe Minnesota, 60 miles west of Minneapolis, 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 with weekly foreclosures on family farms, and many families moving to the south, Malle documented a sense of frustration and apprehension from the same participants he had befriended in better times half a decade earlier