Country: UK, USA
Year: 2013
Duration: 134'
New York, 1841. Solomon Northup is a free African American violinist, married with two children. Deceived by the promise of a job as a musician, he is drugged, kidnapped, and sold into slavery in the South. Stripped of his identity and forced to work on plantations in Louisiana, Solomon is first owned by the kind but timid William Ford and then by the cruel Edwin Epps, who exercises absolute power over his slaves. Forced to remain silent and not rebel, Solomon, along with other slaves, endures violence and humiliation and witnesses his master’s morbid obsession with the young slave Patsey. Twelve years after his abduction, thanks to an encounter with a Canadian abolitionist, he will finally find freedom. The most famous film by Steve McQueen and Chiwetel Ejiofor, winner of three Oscars.
Biography
film director
Steve McQueen
(Uk), the British director, screenwriter and visual artist is the son of Caribbean immigrants. He studied at Chelsea School of Art and Goldsmiths College. In 1999, he won the Turner Prize for contemporary art and, in 2008, after an extensive body of short films and video installations, made his feature-film debut with Hunger (2008), winner of the Caméra d’Or at Cannes. It was the first of three consecutive films he made with his friend and collaborator Michael Fassbender, followed by Shame (2011), screened in competition at Venice, and 12 Years a Slave (2013), which he also produced and for which he won three Oscars, including Best Picture. With Widows (2018), he made his first mainstream film, while the anthology series Small Axe (2020) marked his television debut. In 2021 and 2023, he directed the documentaries Uprising and Occupied City, the latter screened at Cannes. In 2020, he was knighted for his services to the arts. In 2024, he directed Blitz, released on Apple TV+.
FILMOGRAFIA
Bear (cm, 1993), Five Easy Pieces (cm, 1995), Stage (cm, 1996), Just Above My Head (cm, 1996), Exodus (cm, 1997), Deadpan (cm, 1997), Catch (cm, 1997), Drumroll (cm, 1998), Prey (cm, 1999), Cold Breath (cm, 2000), Girls, Tricky (cm, 2001), 7th Nov. (cm, 2001), Illuminer (cm, 2001), Western Deep (cm, 2002), Charlotte (cm, 2004), Pursuit (cm, 2005), Unexploded (cm, 2007), Running Thunder (cm, 2007), Gravesend (cm, 2007), Hunger (2008), Rayners Lane (cm, 2008), Static (cm, 2009), Giardini (cm, 2009), Shame (2011), 12 Years a Slave (12 anni schiavo, 2013), Ashes (cm, 2014), Mr. Bruberry (cm, 2014), Widows (Widows - Eredità criminale, 2018), Small Axe (miniserie tv, 2020), Uprising (miniserie tv, 2021), Grenfell (cm, 2023), Occupied City (doc, 2023), Blitz (2024).
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR: Steve McQueen. STORY: based on the autobiographical book by Solomon Northup. SCREENPLAY: John Ridley. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Sean Bobbitt. EDITING: Joe Walker. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Adam Stockhausen, David Stein, Alice Baker. COSTUME DESIGN: Patricia Norris. MUSIC: Hans Zimmer. CAST: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Dano, Paul Giamatti, Brad Pitt, Lupita Nyong’o, Alfre Woodard, Sarah Paulson, Scoot McNairy, Taran Killam, Garret Dillahunt, Michael Kenneth Williams, Quvenzhané Wallis, Ruth Negga, Bill Camp. PRODUCTION: Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Bill Pohlad, Steve McQueen, Arnon Milchan, Anthony Katagas for Fox Searchlight Pictures, Regency Enterprises, River Road Entertainment, Plan B Entertainment, New Regency, Film4 Productions. CONTACT: Bim Distribuzione - https://bimfilm.com/
