Margaret Garner [videorecording] / a film by Mustapha Hasnaoui ; production La Huit, Stéphanie Jourdain.

Fullscreen.

Chicago, IL : Facets Video, 2006.

1 videodisc (52 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Mustapha Hasnaoui's documentary offers an inside look into the making of Margaret Garner, an opera based upon Toni Morrison's novel, Beloved. Margaret Garner, a slave separated from her husband by a white slave-owner, was forced to become his mistress. In 1856, she fled from Kentucky with her family to Ohio where she killed her two little girls to prevent them from being enslaved. Through interviews with cast members Hasnaoui presents the influence this opera has had on issues of race in the present day, as well as the way in which a disturbing part of history is transformed into art.

Images / Video & Film

English

May 07, 2009

Cinematography by Gilles Picard, Eric Longs, Beth Flowler, and Thomas Sady ; libretto by Toni Morrison; music by Richard Danielpour ; edited by Stephane Huter.

Denyce Graves, Greg Baker.

DVD.

95805 Facets Video