First INDIGNATION Trailer Here is the firstINDIGNATION trailer! The film, directed by James Schamus, stars Logan Lerman, Sarah Gadon, and Tracy Letts. INDIGNATION will be released in theaters on July 29. Set in 1951, the story follows Marcus Messner, the idealistic son of a humble kosher butcher from Newark, N.J. Marcus leaves for Ohio to study at a small, conservative college, where he finds himself at odds with the administration, grapples with anti-Semitism and sexual repression and pines after a troubled girl.