Empire

Original title: Viften

2023 · 1 h 33 · Denmark, Spain, Sweden · Danish

• Comedy
• Drama
• History

As a “free colored” woman, Anna Elizabeth Heegaard is wealthy and owns her own slaves when she begins a love affair with the Danish colony’s governor-general Peter von Scholten. During communal feasts, they discuss social reforms while a slave boy hangs above the table and cools the diners with a feather. And in the shadows, whispers begin of a slave revolt.