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Black Venus (2010)

Black Venus (2010)

Drama History
Release Date: 2010, October 27
Directors: Abdellatif Kechiche
Countries: Belgium, France
Production: MK2 Films, France 2 Cinéma, Artémis Productions
Cast: André Jacobs, Elina Löwensohn, Jonathan Pienaar, Jean-Christophe Bouvet, Olivier Gourmet, Ralph Amoussou, Didier Bourguignon, Rémi Martin, François Marthouret, Dominique Ratonnat, Yahima Torres, Jean-Jacques Moreau

Overview:

The true story of Saartje Baartman, a black South African worker who moves to London with her master in the early 19th century. Although she dreams of being an artist, once in Europe she is exploited as a sideshow attraction due to her large buttocks and genitalia.

Keywords:

poverty racism paris, france london, england aristocrat humiliation france prostitution sexually transmitted disease brothel pneumonia south africa colonialism domestic life exhibition african woman anatomist