Solomon Northup’s Odyssey
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Date: January 01, 1984 to December 31, 1984
Dates Note: 1984
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United States
Place of Origin: United States
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Color: Color
Silent: No
Based On: Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
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A Choice of Weapons: The Films of Gordon ParksDescription:
Based on the 1853 memoir of a Northern black man kidnapped into slavery, Gordon Parks’s Solomon Northup's Odyssey predates Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave by almost three decades. Made for television, with a modest budget, it is less brutal than McQueen’s version, and, as critic Bilge Ebiri wrote, it contains “a somber lyricism that’s hard to shake. The outrage is still there, just more muted and given more historical context.”
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