The Learning Tree [Les sentiers de la violence]

N.p. Warner Brothers, 1970. Vintage French grande affiche poster for the 1969 film.

Based on director and screenwriter Gordon Parks' semi-autobiographical 1963 novel. The first major studio production directed by an African American, and one of few dramas of the period to focus exclusively on Black life in America, depicting the life of a teenager in late 1920s Kansas who grows up quickly as he experiences events related to racial and economic injustice in his community.

Set and shot on location in Kansas.

45.5 x 82 inches. Folded as issued. Near Fine, with modest starting to some of the center folds.

[Book #170873]