A Raisin in the Sun (1961 film) A Raisin in the Sun (1961 film) A Raisin in the Sun is a 1961 drama film directed by Daniel Petrie and starring Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, Claudia McNeil, Diana Sands, Roy Glenn, and Louis Gossett Jr. (in his film debut), and adapted from the 1959 play of the same name by Lorraine Hansberry. It follows a black family that wants a better life away from the city. "A Raisin in the Sun" was released by Columbia Pictures on May 29, 1961. In 2005, the film was selected for preservation in the United States of America National Film Registry by
The Sun in a Net their school. Uher followed "The Sun in a Net" by two more films with the same author-screenwriter Alfonz Bednár and cameraman − Stanislav Szomolányi, later professor of cinematography at the University of Performing Arts, Bratislava: "The Organ" ("Organ," 1964), and "Three Daughters" ("Tri dcéry," 1967). The original music score in "The Sun in a Net" is by the composer Ilja Zeljenka, who also worked with Uher on "We from Study Group 9-A," and went on to work with him on six more films. Uher's and Szomolányi's "She Grazed Horses on Concrete" ("Pásla kone na betóne," 1982) has remained one of