The Middle Passage
by Guy Deslauriers
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Actor: Djimon Hounsou, Maka KottoDirector: Guy Deslauriers
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 76 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-02-04
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: HBO Home Video
Movie Reviews of The Middle Passage
Movie Review: The Middle Passage
Summary: 5 Stars
Excellent video for everyone to see. A big part of history has been omitted from the books and lessons. This video will help to fill in some of the gaps and give us some perspective on the world as it exists today.
Summary of The Middle Passage
It was the route between africa and the new world that carried slaves to exchange for sugar and tobacco. It was the sea that carried a human cargo a resting place for thousands who would not survive the journey. It was called the middle passage. Studio: Hbo Home Video Release Date: 02/04/2003 Run time: 76 minutes Rating: NrThe first image seen in The Middle Passage is a spotless tropical beach. But this is paradise lost, and most of the remainder of this poetically harrowing feature is spent on a slave ship bound from the African coast to the New World. The purpose of Martinique-born director Guy Deslauriers is not to tell a story--there is no dialogue--but to impressionistically capture the horror of the "middle passage," the trans-Atlantic journey in human cargo. As the images of death and disease move by, they are augmented by narration spoken by an African--perhaps his voice is every slave's--on board. The fascinating narration, adapted by the novelist Walter Mosley (from the original French), is spoken in the hauntingly musical cadences of Djimon Hounsou (Amistad), and brings home the spiritual ruin of people separated from land and ancestors. This is a film not only of horror, but of sorrow. --Robert Horton
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