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Furcy : freedom by trial / a coproduction [of] Cinétévé, Gao Shan Pictures and France Télévisions ; a film written and directed by Pierre Lane ; produced by Fabienee Servan Schreiber, Estelle Mauriac, Arnauld Boulard.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Furcy, 1786-1856.
- Furcy.
- Enslaved persons--Legal status, laws, etc--Réunion.
- Enslaved persons.
- Enslaved persons--Legal status, laws, etc--France.
- Slavery--France--Colonies--History--19th century.
- Slavery.
- Colonies.
- History.
- Enslaved persons--Legal status, laws, etc.
- France.
- Réunion.
- Genre:
- Biographical films.
- Documentary films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file (52 min.) : digital, sound, color
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Paris, France] : [Distributed by] Cinétévé, [2021]
- Language Note:
- In French with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- video file
- Summary:
- For over 25 years, from 1817 to 1843, Furcy, who was officially considered a slave on Bourbon Island (the former name of Reunion Island), fought to get the highest court in the Kingdom of France to recognize his status as a free man. The most amazing part of the story is that he won. There is no other known case anywhere in the world in which an enslaved person sued his master in order to regain his freedom. Just a few years after the verdict was returned at the Royal Court of Paris recognizing Furcy's freedom, slavery was abolished in all French colonies. How is it possible that Furcy won? What kind of man was he? What does his story have to tell us two centuries later? The documentary will explore the life of this exceptional man.
- Participant:
- Narrator, Chloe Rejón.
- Credits:
- Music, Siegfried Canto ; editor, Claudine Dupont ; director of photography, Pierre Lane.
- Notes:
- Title from title frames.
- Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed September 15, 2021).
- Publisher Number:
- ci-furcy Docuseek2
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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