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
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
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Videos
Trailer 'The Birth of a Nation'
June 21 2016
Teaser trailer 'The Birth of a Nation'
April 15 2016
Photos
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.
Satellite Awards
The film was nominated to Best Film Editing in Satellite Awards.
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.
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