Here in America review – Miller and Kazan test the bonds of friendship in McCarthy-era witch-hunt drama

Neither heroes nor villains … Jasmine Blackborow as Miss Bauer and Michael Aloni as Art in Here in America. Photograph: Manuel Harlan

In the 1950s, four years apart, the director Elia Kazan and the playwright Arthur Miller were subpoenaed to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee.

As friends and collaborators, Kazan had once been a member of the Communist party, while Miller had associated with those in it. Under the shadow of the blacklisted “Hollywood Ten”, with McCarthyist fear at fever-pitch, Kazan named names in front of the committee while Miller refused to do so, and was punished for it with a suspended prison sentence.