Amistad
poster from
IMDb
Released 1997 by DreamWorks SKG, color, digital sound, 152 mins.,
DVD
released 1999.
Production:
Directed by Steven Spielberg
Written by William Owens from his book
Black Mutiny,
and David Franzoni, Steven Zaillian
Produced by Debbie Allen
Original music by John Williams
Cinematography by Janusz Kaminski
Film Editing by Michael Kahn
Production Design by Rick Carter
Art Direction Christopher Burian-Mohr
Set Decoration Rosemary Brandenburg
Costume Design by Ruth E. Carter
Sound by Jeff Clark, Charles L. Campbell
Cast:
Djimon Hounsou as Cinqué
Matthew McConaughey as Baldwin
Anthony Hopkins as John Quincy Adams
Morgan Freeman as Theodore Joadson
Nigel Hawthorne as Martin Van Buren
David Paymer as Secretary Forsyth
Pete Postlethwaite as Holabird
Stellan Skarsgård as Tappan
Razaaq Adoti as Yamba
Abu Bakaar Fofanah as Fala
Anna Paquin as Queen Isabel II
Tomas Milian as Calderon
Chjwetel Ejiofor as Ensign Covey
map of Amistad and Creole routes
from A. B. Hart, 1906
Derrick N. Ashong as Bukei
Geno Silva as Ruiz
John Ortiz as Montes
Ralph Brown as Lieutenant Gedney
Darren E. Burrows as Lieutenant Meade
Allan Rich as Judge Juttson
Paul Guilfoyle as Attorney
Peter Firth as Captain Fitzgerald
Xander Berkeley as Hammond
Jeremy Northam as Judge Coglin
Arliss Howard as John C. Calhoun
Links:
Credits from the IMDB for the title
Amistad
Film review by Sally Hadden, 1997
Exploring Amistad
from Mystic Seaport
The
Creole slave revolt
was similar to the Amistad revolt.
References:
Hadden, Sally. "Amistad," Film review from H-Law@msu.edu (December, 1997)
article
Jackson, Donald Dale. "Mutiny on the Amistad,"
Smithsonian,
Dec. 1997, Vol. 28 Issue 9, pp. 115-124,
article
Jones, Howard.
Mutiny on the Amistad.
1987, is the most reliable source.
Wyatt-Brown, Bertram. Film review in
Journal of American History
, Dec. 1998, pp. 1174-1176.
revised 11/20/01 by
Schoenherr
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