Empire
2023
Drama, Comedy | 20 April 2023
Anna Neye Poulsen, Sara Fanta Traore, Claus Riis Østergaard
As a “free colored” woman, Anna Elizabeth Heegaard is wealthy and owns her own slaves when she begins a love affair with the Danish colony’s governor-general Peter von Scholten. During communal feasts, they discuss social reforms while a slave boy hangs above the table and cools the diners with a feather. And in the shadows, whispers begin of a slave revolt.