Lorraine Hansberry Lorraine Hansberry Lorraine Vivian Hansberry (May 19, 1930 – January 12, 1965) was an African-American playwright and writer. Hansberry was the first black female author to have a play performed on Broadway. Her best known work, the play "A Raisin in the Sun", highlights the lives of Black Americans living under racial segregation in Chicago. Hansberry's family had struggled against segregation, challenging a restrictive covenant and eventually provoking the Supreme Court case "Hansberry v. Lee". The title of the play was taken from the poem "Harlem" by Langston Hughes: "What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like
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