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Emancipation(Movie, 2022)

2h 12min | Genre: Drama
EmancipationRating: 4.0/5 (with 413413 votes)
Emancipation is a 2022 American historical action thriller film set in Louisiana in the 1860s after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation to end slavery in secessionist Confederate states. The film was directed by Antoine Fuqua and co-produced by Will Smith, who stars as a runaway slave headed for Baton Rouge. He must survive the swamps while being chased by slave catchers and their dogs. Written by William N. Collage, the biographical film is loosely based on a possibly conglomerated story of the lives of either or both of two formerly enslaved Black men named Gordon and "Whipped Peter". That story was made famous by the photograph of a man's bare back heavily scourged from an overseer's whippings, published worldwide as magazine illustrations in 1863, and gave the abolitionist movement proof of the cruelty of slavery. Ben Foster stars as a ruthless slave hunter and Charmaine Bingwa as an enslaved wife and mother. The film employs an artistic desaturated color palette reminiscen... ()
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About Emancipation

Inspired by the gripping true story of a man who would do anything for his family—and for freedom. When Peter, an enslaved man, risks his life to escape and return to his family, he embarks on a perilous journey of love and endurance.

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Production country: United States of America (USA)
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN), Haitian/Haitian Creole (HT)
Translated into 33 languages: Arabic (AR), Bulgarian (BG), Catalan (CA), Czech (CS), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Persian (FA), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Gallegan (GL), Hebrew (HE), Croatian (HR), Hungarian (HU), Indonesian (ID), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Georgian (KA), Korean (KO), Lithuanian (LT), Burmese (MY), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Slovenian (SL), Serbian (SR), Swedish (SV), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Vietnamese (VI), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 12/02/2022
Cast: Will Smith, Ben Foster, Charmaine Bingwa, Mustafa Shakir
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Director of Photography: Robert Richardson
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Emancipação: Uma História de Liberdade"
"Hacia la libertad"
"رهایی"
"해방"
"Освобождение"

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