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Enslavement: The True Story Of Fanny Kemble (2000)
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Enslavement: The True Story Of Fanny Kemble (2000)
Original name: Enslavement: The True Story of Fanny Kemble
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Enslavement: The True Story of Fanny Kemble fictionalized made-for-TV movie adapted from her Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839, starring Jane Seymour and Keith Carradine.
Style: sincere, captivating, disturbing, period drama
Plot: slave, slavery, class struggle, family relations, fighting the system, social differences, social problems, relationship problems, family problems, husband wife relationship, social injustice, showdown, slave labor, social issues, domineering husband, power relations, civil war, black, abolitionist, president, historical event, female protagonist, british man, costume
Time: victorian era, 19th century, 1840s, victorian age

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Duration: 101 min.
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