Enslavement: The Horros of Slavery ( Enslavement: The True Story of Fanny Kemble )

Enslavement: The Horros of Slavery (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Enslavement: The True Story of Fanny Kemble
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Emmy Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Netherlands ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
109 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2000 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
James Keach

Written By:
Christopher Lofton

Actors:
Jane Seymour ..... Fanny Kemble Butler
Keith Carradine ..... Pierce Butler
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje ..... Joe
Janet-Laine Green ..... Elizabeth Sedgwick
James Keach ..... Dr. Huston
Arlene Duncan ..... Harriet
Eugene Byrd ..... Jack
Sharon Washington ..... Psyche
Brett Porter ..... Owen Parker
Gerard Parkes ..... Charles Kemble
Kayla Perlmutter ..... Young Sarah
Bernard Browne ..... Sam Swift
Catherine Hayos ..... Julia
Rick Demas ..... Brutus
Jackie Richardson ..... Daphne

Synopsis:

Jane Seymour stars in this made-for-cable biographical drama as Fanny Kemble, a popular British stage actress of the 19th Century who, at the height of her career, quit acting to marry Pierce Butler, a successful planter in the American South. Kemble was deeply disturbed by the treatment of slaves on her husband's plantation, which she soon discovered was par for the course in the South at that time. Eventually, her disgust led her to leave her husband, become an outspoken activist for abolition, and write a book about slavery in America -- Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation, which caused a scandal in her native England and led to British support of the Union during the Civil War. Enslavement: The True Story of Fanny Kemble also stars Keith Carradine and James Keach.

This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 18 April, 2010.