12 Years a Slave - Oscar 2014 - Best Film

12 Years a Slave - Oscar 2014 - Best Film

12 Years a Slave - Oscar 2014 - Best Film

Producer	Steve McQueen
Cast	Chiwetel Ejiofor , Michael Fassbender , Lupita Nyong'o , Sarah Paulson , Benedict Cumberbatch , Brad Pitt , Paul Dano , Paul Giamatti , Alfre Woodard , Odepero Oduye , Kuavenzhane Wallis
Produced by	Dede Gardner , Anthony Katagas , Jeremy Kleiner
Writers	John Ridley , Solomon Northup
Operator	Sean Bobbitt
Composer	Hans Zimmer
Budget	$ 20 million
Premiere	December 12, 2013 (Russian) August 30, 2013 (World)
Released on DVD	May 15, 2014
MPAA Rating
Distributors	Central Partnership
Official site	http://www.12yearsaslave.com
The official slogan	The extraordinary true story of Solomon Northup

The plot of the movie

Historical drama about slavery. Solomon Northup was married and educated man, who lived and worked in New York, when two people once offered him an attractive job in Washington. Upon arrival, he was kidnapped, become a slave, and eked out a miserable life, going from one host to another. The film "12 Years a Slave" is based on the autobiography of Solomon Northup , which he published in 1853.

Run, Solomon, run!

The third film of an ambitious director, favorite of critics of Steve McQueen ( " Hunger ," " Shame "), based on the autobiographical book of black Americans Solomon Northup, accidentally landed in slavery.

In the middle of the XIX century in America the slave system gradually hand over the position of progressive capitalism, and remained only in the south of the country. Solomon Northup ( Chiwetel Ejiofor ) - an African American, a family man, a violinist - lived quietly in New York, until he got into the trap set by his bad people.Taking advantage of the credulity and unsophisticated Nortapa desire to earn extra money for the family, deceit lured the villains black guy in Washington, kidnapped, shackled and sent directly to the South. There the poor fellow fell into the clutches of the terrible man Edwin Epps ( Michael Fassbender ) - a scoundrel and sadist who does not believe to any equality of races.

It is right, according to the laws of serious epic movie filmed this tape is based on a real person autobiography, taste their own skin all the charm of slavery. The book published back in 1853, immediately after Notrap returned home and described his ordeal. For the year as the minds of the Northerners owned bestseller Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin", revealing the relationship between people, established in the southern states, and not only due to heated discussions, but the whole literary movement "Anti-Tom." The main villain in the novel appeared despotic planter Simon Legree. It is such a heartless and immoral type met among the rotting swamps of Louisiana and Solomon Northup. And it is this type convincingly embodies on screen Michael Fassbender.

In contrast to the "Uncle Tom's Cabin" white people are presented here only as satraps - approach cultivated by another American director Spike Lee. The film is replete with long scenes of punishment faced by poor slaves.Such attention to detail could play a bad joke and give reason to suspect McQueen in a kind of latent sadism, if not an absolute desire to show the director's ideal desire for freedom, courage and heroism, a proactive stance, opposed rabid racism. This approach did not go unnoticed in America - "12 Years a Slave" has already received a number of prizes at film festivals and was nominated for "Oscar".