Directed by Michael Roemer

Michael Roemer was one of American cinema’s most eloquent voices, a long-unsung independent trailblazer whose profoundly humanist, unfailingly truthful vision has only in recent years come to be properly appreciated. A Jewish refugee who escaped Nazi Germany as a child, Roemer made only a handful of features, but each—including the landmark portrait of Black American struggle NOTHING BUT A MAN, the wryly offbeat gangster comedy THE PLOT AGAINST HARRY, and the slow-burn domestic drama VENGEANCE IS MINE—is a small miracle of personal, defiantly anticommercial filmmaking, rich in feeling for character and place and graced with a vérité authenticity that reveals deep insights into human relationships.