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AMISTAD
U.S., 1997
Directed by Steven Spielberg
With Morgan Freeman, Djimon Hounsou, Anthony Hopkins, Matthew McConaughey, Nigel Hawthorne
Cinematography by Janusz Kaminski
Music by John Williams
Approx. 155 mins. 4K DCP.
“As the fate of the 53 slaves charged with murder is determined in the courts, the politically and philosophically diverse factions are laboriously established: the Abolitionists (Freeman and Skarsgård); their initially dispassionate young lawyer (McConaughey); the pro-slavery attorney (Postlethwaite); President Van Buren (Hawthorne), keen to appease the South, Spain's teenage Queen Isabella, and an electorate about to vote; and former President John Quincy Adams (Hopkins), a curmudgeonly eccentric who eventually emerges from retirement to argue for brave, unbending Cinque (Hounsou) and the other defendants.” – Time Out