Slavery In Search of Origins
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Production year2025
Programme formatOne-off
GenresDocumentary
Runtime
100 min
Synopsis
With the aim of discovering who we are and where we come from, “Slavery in search of origins” invites 5 French personalities, including Kalash, Joey Starr and Stefy Celma, to trace their family tree back through the terrible history of French slavery and the slave trade. Their family’s destiny is that of the 4 million men and women enslaved between the 16th and 18th centuries. It also confronts the families of shipowners, slave traders and slave owners. Alternating itw, archive footage, fiction and in situ sequences, and the words of well-known and anonymous witnesses, this ambitious film allows us to revisit this painful history.
Credits
Actor (1)
Production and distribution (2)
- Executive Producer : Gedeon Programmes
- Film exports/foreign sales : Gedeon Programmes
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Technical details
- Programme format : One-off
- Type : TV programme
- Genres : Documentary
- Sub-genre : Documentary
- Themes : History
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2025
- First broadcast in France : 13/05/2025
- Runtime : 1 h 40 min
