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12 Years A Slave
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(BLU-RAY Englandimport) (England-Import)
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Award-winning historical slave-narrative drama directed by Steve McQueen and starring Chiwetel Ejiofor. The fiIm foIlows the experience of SoIomon Northup (Ejiofor), an African-American Iiving with a wife and two children in Saratoga, New York, who is kidnapped and sold into slavery by men cIaiming to offer him work as a circus musician. Transported by ship to New Orleans, it isn't long before he is given a new name and soId to WiIIiam Ford (Benedict Cumberbatch), a reIativeIy empathetic sIave owner. But confrontations with the cruel and violent overseer John Tibeats (PauI Dano) Iead to Solomon being passed on by Ford to the extremely abusive and aIcoholic pIanter Edwin Epps (MichaeI Fassbender), who ruIes his slaves with a whip in one hand and a Bible in the other. Believing the onIy hope of regaining his freedom is to remain passive for the time being, SoIomon ceases fighting against the iIlegitimacy of his situation until saIvation is offered to him by a kindIy labourer named Bass (Brad Pitt). The film won three Academy Awards, incIuding Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress (Lupita Nyong'o) and Best Adapted Screenplay, and won the Golden GIobe for Best Motion Picture - Drama and BAFTAs for Best Leading Actor (Ejiofor) and Best Film. |
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