The White Slave ( L'esclave blanc )

The White Slave (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: L'esclave blanc
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
77 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1936 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Italy ( Italy, Greece )

Directed By:
Jean-Paul Paulin

Written By:
Ernesto Quadrone

Actors:
George Rigaud ..... Andrea
Luisa Garella ..... La sua fidanzata
Egisto Olivieri ..... Suo padre - proprietario della piantagione
Sanlure ..... Miriam - la fanciulla indigena
Dig Doro ..... Un negretto
Fai ..... Un'altra fanciulla indigena
Nur ..... Indigeno
Jeannette Ferney

Synopsis:

A colonial film shot in the Italian Somalia. The daughter of the plantation owner falls in love with the young farm manager, but papa is against it. The young man escapes with a Somali woman, who works her magic spell to make him her "white slave". Beautiful definition of light in this colonial story, certainly offensive, and now a document of the attitudes of the time. Fascinatingly, Carl Th. Dreyer worked with an early version of the story, L'Homme ensablé, here reconstructed via animated and sonorized drawings. The attraction of this film may have been the sense of earthly paradise in the escapade of the young lovers (the black woman and the white man).

This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 10 April, 2016.

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