The Birth of a Nation

Name: The Birth of a Nation
Genre: Drama, Biography, History
Duration: 1 h 50 min
Rating: 5.8
Cast: Nate Parker, Armie Hammer, Penelope Ann Miller, Jackie Earle Haley, Aunjanue Ellis

2016

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5.8

Title: The Birth of a Nation

Original Title: The Birth of a Nation

Year: 2016

Info

Country: USA
Length: 110 Minutes (1 hour 50 min)
Budget: $8,500,000
Genre: Drama Biography History
Studios: Phantom Four
Distributor: Searchlight Pictures
Age rating: 15 (Suitable only for 15 years and over)

Release Dates

UK: December 09 2016
United States: October 07 2016

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Tráiler de 'Reversión'

Plot

'The Birth of a Nation' is a film which title makes a reference to one of the first full-lenght film from the classic age of cinema: 'The Birth of a Nation' by filmmaker D.W. Griffith in 1915. This film is directed by Nate Parker, who also portrays the main character. It's focused on Nat Turner, a literate slave and former preacher. One day his owner, who's financialy strained, decides to use Nat's influencing ways as he preaches to make a profit from it, recruiting new slaves for his land and subdue rebellious slaves. But after he finds out the real purpose of his duty and witness all the atrocious things they do to him and his fellow slaves, he decides to uprise to liberate his people and leading them to freedom.

'The Birth of a Nation' is one of the favorites in the Oscar 2017 and it won the mayor prize at Sundance Film Festival and also the price that Fox Searchlight Pictures paid for the worldwide distribution of the film was the biggest deal ever made in the history of Sundance.

Cast

Director:

Nate Parker Nate Parker

Nat Turner

Samuel Turner

Elizabeth Turner

Raymond Cobb

Nancy

Hark

Reverend Walthall

Videos

2:36

Trailer 'The Birth of a Nation'

June 21 2016

1:56

Teaser trailer 'The Birth of a Nation'

April 15 2016

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Trivia

Nat Turner's visions

The film looks at the slave revolt Nat Turner led in Virginia in 1831, but a storytelling device - the brutal sexual assault by white men on Turner's wife - feeds a rage that sets the rebellion in motion. History shows that Turner never acknowledged having a wife. There are records that indicate Turner's owner, Samuel Turner, married him to a slave named Cherry, but that he likely didn't consider the marriage valid and Nat never mentioned the marriage in his writings. Turner's rebellion was, according to his own writings, based on spiritual visions. "In a seventh vision, Nat Turner saw a holy war and believed he was commanded to take up arms against his oppressors," according to historians.

Investment

Nate Parker invested $100,000 of his own money into the film.

New version

This film deliberately shares his title with the film 'The Birth of a Nation' by D.W. Griffith, who at the same time was the adaptation of Thomas Dixon's novels. President Woodrow Wilson, who projected the film in the White House, said that it was "like writing a story with lightning, and my only regret is that it all really happened." The film was also the object of protests for his virulent and racist view of African Americans. Mostly white cinema scholars continued to praise the film, but they minimized or ignored the racist message on the background.