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Porgy and Bess

Porgy and Bess

Original title
Porgy and Bess
Year
1959
Gender
Drama , Musical , Romance
Director
Otto Preminger
Country
United States of America
Details
138 minutes / colored / sound

Set in the early 1900s in the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina, which serves as home to a black fishing community, the story focuses on the titular characters, crippled beggar Porgy, who travels about in a goat-drawn cart, and the drug-addicted Bess, who lives with stevedore Crown, the local bully.

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