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12 Years a Slave (film)
2013 film directed by Steve McQueen
12 Years a Slave is a 2013 biographical drama film directed by Steve McQueen from a screenplay by John Ridley, based on the 1853 slave memoirTwelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup, an African American man who was kidnapped in Washington, D.C.
by two conmen in 1841 and sold into slavery.
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He was put to work on plantations in the state of Louisiana for 12 years before being released. The first scholarly edition of David Wilson's version of Northup's story was co-edited in 1968 by Sue Eakin and Joseph Logsdon.[7]
Chiwetel Ejiofor stars as Solomon Northup.
Supporting roles are portrayed by Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Dano, Garret Dillahunt, Paul Giamatti, Scoot McNairy, Lupita Nyong'o, Adepero Oduye, Sarah Paulson, Brad Pitt, Michael Kenneth Williams, and Alfre Woodard.
Principal photography took place in New Orleans, Louisiana, from June 27 to August 13, 2012. The locations used were fou