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Empire (2023)
Directed by Frederikke Aspöck
Overview
As a “free colored” woman, Anna Elizabeth Heegaard is wealthy and owns her own slaves when she begins a love affair with the Danish colony’s governor-general Peter von Scholten. During communal feasts, they discuss social reforms while a slave boy hangs above the table and cools the diners with a feather. And in the shadows, whispers begin of a slave revolt.
Length 93 minutes
Actors
Anna Neye Poulsen | Sara Fanta Traore | Claus Riis Østergaard | Jesper Groth | Jesper Asholt | Søs Sif Thiele | Anders Brink Madsen | Prince Yaw Appiah | Peter Gantzler | Christopher Læssø | Søren Sætter-Lassen