Amistad
Amistad is a 1997 American historical drama film directed by Steven Spielberg, based on the events in 1839 aboard the Spanish slave ship La Amistad, during which Mende tribesmen abducted for the slave trade managed to gain control of their captors' ship off the coast of Cuba, and the international legal battle that followed their capture by the Washington, a U.S. revenue cutter. The case was ultimately resolved by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1841.
Plot
The schooner La Amistad is transporting black slaves off the coast of the Spanish colony of Cuba in 1839. A captive, Cinqué, leads an uprising against the crew, most of whom are killed. Two navigators, Pedro Montez and Jose Ruiz, are spared on condition they help sail the ship to Africa. The Spaniards predictably betray them and instead sail into US waters, where the ship is stopped by the U.S. revenue cutter Washington, and the mutineers are arrested.
Awards
Cast
- Allan Rich
- Anna Paquin
- Anthony Hopkins
- Arliss Howard
- Austin Pendleton
- Cástulo Guerra
- Chiwetel Ejiofor
- Daniel von Bargen
- Darren E. Burrows
- David Paymer
- Derrick Ashong
- Djimon Hounsou
- Geno Silva
- Gerald R. Molen
- Harry Blackmun
- Harry Groener
- Hawthorne James
- Jake Weber
- Jeremy Northam
- John Ortiz
- Kevin J. O'Connor
- Matthew McConaughey
- Michael Massee
- Michael Riley
- Morgan Freeman
- Nigel Hawthorne
- Paul Guilfoyle
- Pedro Armendáriz Jr.
- Pete Postlethwaite
- Peter Firth
- Ralph Brown
- Razaaq Adoti
- Rusty Schwimmer
- Stellan Skarsgård
- Tomás Milián
- Victor Rivers
- Xander Berkeley