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The Trial of the Chicago
7 (2020)
release
date: 16 October 2020
production
company: Dreamworks Pictures, Shivhans Pictures,
Paramount Pictures
Directed
by Aaron Sorkin
Screenplay by Aaron Sorkin
Music Composed
and Produced by Daniel Pemberton
Conducted by Andrew Skeet
Orchestrated by Andrew Skeet,
Edward Farmer & Danny Ryan
Performed by Chamber Orchestra of
London
Recorded and Mixed by Sam
Okell
Recorded at Air Lyndhurst, London
& Abbey Road Studios, London, UK
Mixed
at Okell Studios, Cornwall
Music Editor Allegra De Souza
Assistant
Engineers Jack Mills, Chris Parker, Gianluca Massimo,
Ashley Andrew-Jones, Jack Thomason
Score
Coordinator Darrell Alexander
Musicians
Contractor Gareth Griffiths
Preparation Jill Streater -
Global Music Services, Dan Boardman & Alex Gruz
Composer's
Assistant Alex
Gruz
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Synopsis
In Chicago 1968, the Democratic Pary
Convention was met with protests from activists like the
moderate Students for a Democratic Society led by Tom Hayden
and the militant Yippies led by Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin,
which led to violent confrontations with the local
authorities. As a result, seven of the accused ringleaders are
arraigned on charges like Conspiracy by the hostile Nixon
administration, including Bobby Seale of the Black Panthers
who was not involved in the incident. What follows is an
unfair trial presided by the belligerent Judge Hoffman (No
relation) and prosecuted by a reluctant but duty-bound Richard
Schultz. As their pro bono lawyers face such odds, Hayden and
his fellows are frustrated by the Yippies' outrageous antics
undermining their defense in defiance of the system even while
Seale is denied a chance to defend himself his way. Along the
way, the Chicago 7 clash in their political philosophies even
as they learn they need each other in this
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