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LAW AND ORDER

By Frederick WISEMAN

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Documentary - Completed 1969

Festivals
& Awards

Cannes 2024

Cannes Classics

- Year of production
- 1969
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- USA
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Duration
- 81 mn
- Director(s)
- Frederick WISEMAN
- Writer(s)
- Frederick WISEMAN
- Producer(s)
- Karen KONICEK (Zipporah Films Inc.)
- Synopsis
- Law and Order surveys the wide range of work the police are asked to perform: enforcing the law, maintaining order, and providing general social services. The incidents shown illustrate how training, community expectations, socio-economic status of the subject, the threat of violence, and discretion affect police behavior.
  
  A presentation and restoration by Zipporah Films in association with Steven Spielberg, with the participation of the Library of Congress. New version restored in 4K from the 16mm image negative and original sound. Digitization and color grading carried out at DuArt and Goldcrest laboratories in New York. Digital restoration by Jane Tolmachyov, under the supervision of Frederick Wiseman and Karen Konicek. Digitization of the complete works of Frederick Wiseman, which will be the subject of retrospectives around the world beginning the Fall of 2024.