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The middle passage
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The work The middle passage represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Bowdoin College Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

The Resource The middle passage
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The middle passage
Statement of responsibility
a Kreol Productions and Raphia Films production ; script by Claude Chonville and Patrick Chamioseau ; narration written by Walter Mosley ; directed by Guy Deslauriers ; produced for HBO by David Gaines
Title variation
Passage du milieu
Contributor
  • HBO Video (Firm)
  • HBO Video (Firm)
  • Home Box Office (Firm)
  • Home Box Office (Firm)
  • Kreol Productions (Firm)
  • Kreol Productions (Firm)
  • Raphia Films Production (Cameroon)
  • Raphia Films Production (Cameroon)
  • Chamoiseau, Patrick
  • Chamoiseau, Patrick
  • Chonville, Claude
  • Chonville, Claude
  • Deslauriers, Guy
  • Deslauriers, Guy
  • Gaines, David
  • Gaines, David
  • Hounsou, Djimon, 1964-
  • Hounsou, Djimon, 1964-
  • Mosley, Walter
  • Mosley, Walter
Subject
  • African Americans -- Drama
  • African Americans -- Drama
  • Drama
  • Drama
  • Feature films -- France
  • Slave trade -- History -- 19th century -- Drama
  • Slave trade -- History -- 19th century -- Drama
  • Slavery -- Drama
  • Slavery -- Drama
  • Video recordings
  • Video recordings
  • Videorecording
Genre
  • Drama
  • Feature films
  • Video recordings
Language
  • eng
  • spa
  • eng
  • fre
  • spa
  • fre
  • eng
Summary
The story of an African slave who was sold into slavery by the King of Dahomey, shackled and transported on a journey shared with some six hundred others-- a journey barely half would survive
Cataloging source
BBH
Characteristic
videorecording
Credits note
Director of photography, Jacques Boumendil ; music, Amos Coulanges
Language note
Soundtrack in English and Spanish with subtitles in English, Spanish and French; closed captioned
PerformerNote
Narrator, Djimon Hounsou
Runtime
76
Target audience
adult
Technique
live action

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  • The middle passage, a Kreol Productions and Raphia Films production ; script by Claude Chonville and Patrick Chamioseau ; narration written by Walter Mosley ; directed by Guy Deslauriers ; produced for HBO by David Gaines

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