%% %% # 🎞 Amistad (1997) **Summary**: Set in the mid-19th Century, the film a historical drama film based on the true story of the La Amistad slave rebellion in 1839. The film takes place in the United States during the mid-19th century and follows the journey of enslaved Africans who rebel against their captors and take control of their ship. The film focuses on their legal battle for freedom in the American court system. - Scene where the American abolitionists visit the Africans in the prison, the difference in language between the two, the completely alien confrontation of the African and White world/ - "In order to do a better job than the attorney who represented the son of god"