Rage, Sex, and Jazz: I Spit on Your Graves by Vernon Sullivan

Rage, Sex, and Jazz: I Spit on Your Graves by Vernon Sullivan

2022 · 53 min · ★ 6.0 · Documentary, History, TV Movie

In 1946, the controversial French writer Boris Vian writes his novel I Spit on Your Graves under the pseudonym of Vernon Sullivan, supposedly a mysterious African-American writer; a work against racism and Anglo-Saxon puritanism whose publication causes a great scandal.

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