FFGR
ANGELO
Markus Schleinzer
Austria, Luxembourg 2018 110 DCP Color
i There are no scheduled screenings.
Film description
In the early 18th century, a boy from Africa is sold in Europe as a slave, he grows up in the circles of a countess who turns him into the object of an “ennoblement” experiment, until he ends up in the salons of a noble who forces him to perform stories about his exotic homeland, wearing a costume – a Scheherazade in charge of amusing high society’s ennui. His skin (and its color) will become the physical limit that separates him from his true love, but also the surface where discourses of exclusion and acceptance, memory and silence, and the genealogy of modern slavery will be inscribed.
59th TIFF: Greek Premiere
i There are no scheduled screenings.
