Indignation

Directed by James Schamus

Based on Philip Roth’s novel, Indignation takes place in 1951, as Marcus Messner (Logan Lerman), a brilliant working class Jewish boy from Newark, New Jersey, travels on scholarship to a small, conservative college in Ohio, thus exempting him from being drafted into the Korean War. But once there, Marcus’s growing infatuation with his beautiful classmate Olivia Hutton (Sarah Gadon), and his clashes with the college’s imposing Dean, Hawes Caudwell (Tracy Letts), put his and his family’s best laid plans to the ultimate test. Written and directed by James Schamus (in an impressive directorial debut), Indignation captures with an uncanny realism a moment of innocence and caution in a post-World War II era.

Duration:
111 minutes

Languages:
English

Country of origin:
USA

Year of production:
2016