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The middle passage / HBO Films presents ; a Kreol Productions and Raphia Films Production ; script by Claude Chonville and Patrick Chamoiseau ; [English] narration written by Walter Mosley ; directed by Guy Deslauriers ; produced for HBO by David Gaines.
LIBRA DVD 025 265
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- French
- Spanish
- Undetermined
- Subjects (All):
- Slave trade--History--19th century--Drama.
- Slave trade.
- African Americans--Drama.
- African Americans.
- History.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Historical films.
- Feature films.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Motion pictures, French.
- Motion pictures, Cameroonian.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Also released in French under title: Passage du milieu
- Place of Publication:
- [New York, NY] : HBO Home Video, 2003.
- Language Note:
- Soundtrack in English and Spanish; optional subtitles in English, French and Spanish.
- Closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired.
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, Region 1; stereo.
- digital
- optical
- stereo
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- 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.
- Participant:
- Narrator, Djimon Hounsou.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Jacques Boumendil; editor, Aï̈lo Auguste; music, Amos Coulanges.
- Notes:
- Videodisc release of the motion picture produced in 2000.
- Special feature: cast and crew bios.
- Aspect ratio 16:9.
- ISBN:
- 0783120494
- 9780783120492
- OCLC:
- 51555945
- Publisher Number:
- 026359189524
- 91895 HBO Home Video
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