The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson

Name: The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2017-07-27
Duration: 1 h 45 min
Cast: Marsha P. Johnson, Victoria Cruz, Sylvia Rivera, Taylor Mead, Pat Bumgardner

2017 · 1h 45m · Documentary

A life that launched a revolution, a death that remains a mystery.

Describing herself as a 'street queen,' Johnson was a legendary fixture in New York City’s gay ghetto and a tireless voice for LGBT pride since the days of Stonewall, who along with fellow trans icon Sylvia Rivera, founded Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries (S.T.A.R.), a trans activist group based in the heart of NYC’s Greenwich Village. Her death in 1992 was declared a suicide by the NYPD, but friends never accepted that version of events. Structured as a whodunit, with activist Victoria Cruz cast as detective and audience surrogate, The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson celebrates the lasting political legacy of Johnson, while seeking to finally solve the mystery of her unexplained death.

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Cast

Marsha P. Johnson as Self (archive footage)
Victoria Cruz as Self
Sylvia Rivera as Self (archive footage)
Taylor Mead as Self (archive footage)
Pat Bumgardner as Self (archive footage)
Vito Russo as Self (archive footage)

Details

Director: David France
Released: July 27, 2017
Runtime: 1h 45m
Genres: Documentary
Studio: Terasem Media & Films, Faliro House Productions and Race Point Films
Status: Released
TMDB score: 7.1 / 10 from 107 votes

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