Black Venus (2010)

Director(s):Abdellatif Kechiche

Writer(s):Abdellatif Kechiche (original scenario),Abdellatif Kechiche (adaptation)

Cast(s):Yahima Torres,Benicio Del Toro,Gael García Bernal,Bingbing Li,Archie Kao,Gianna Jun,Coco Chiang,Hu Qing Yun,Shi Ping Cao,Ruijia Zhang,Vivian Wu,Zhebing Gong,Lilia Zhou,Congmeng Guo,Danping Shen,Yan Dai,Yulan Xu,Michael Beskorovainy,Elena Chebaturkina,Damir Eldarov,Olga Golovanova,Aleksandr Gruzdev,Artem Kipnis,Steve Kramer,Evelyn Lantto,Luis Lau,Liubomiras Lauciavicius,David Lodge,Georgi Martirosyan,Michael McConnohie,Cassandra Morris,Katharine Hepburn,Anthony Hopkins,John Castle,Nigel Terry,Timothy Dalton,Jane Merrow,Nigel Stock,Kenneth Ives,O.Z. Whitehead,Fran Stafford,Ella More,Kenneth Griffith,Henry Woolf,Karol Hagar,Pavel Derevyanko,Andrey Merzlikin,Anna Tsukanova,Veronika Nikonova,Anatoly Kot,Aleksei Kopashov,Aleksandr Korshunov,Madlen Dzhabrailova,Ilya Mozgovoi,Vladimir Kapustin,Dmitri Kulichkov,Elena Dubrovskaya,Mikhail Pavlik,Maksim Kostromykin,Peter Stebbings,Christian Camargo,Roman Podhora,Sam Redford,Steve Nicolson,Liam Neeson,Ravil Isyanov,Tim Woodward,Lex Shrapnel,Shaun Benson,Kris Holden-Ried,Dmitry Chepovetsky,Christopher Redman,Tygh Runyan,Vincent Cassel,Émilie Dequenne,Monica Bellucci,Jérémie Renier,Mark Dacascos,Jean Yanne,Jean-François Stévenin,Jacques Perrin,Johan Leysen,Bernard Farcy,Edith Scob,Hans Meyer,Virginie Darmon,Philippe Nahon,Dominique Baffier,Jean Clottes,Jean-Michel Geneste,Carole Fritz,Gilles Tosello,Michel Philippe,Julien Monney,Nicholas Conard,Wulf Hein,Maria Malina,Maurice Maurin,Charles Fathy,Volker Schlöndorff,Michael Lonsdale,Olivier Rabourdin,Philippe Laudenbach,Jacques Herlin,Loïc Pichon,Xavier Maly,Jean-Marie Frin,Abdelhafid Metalsi,Sabrina Ouazani,Abdellah Moundy,Olivier Perrier,Farid Larbi,Adel Bencherif,Benhaïssa Ahouari,Haing S. Ngor,John Malkovich,Julian Sands,Craig T. Nelson,Spalding Gray,Bill Paterson,Athol Fugard,Graham Kennedy,Katherine Krapum Chey,Oliver Pierpaoli,Edward Entero Chey,Tom Bird,Monirak Sisowath,Lambool Dtangpaibool,Barry Pepper,Katie Holmes,Tom Wilkinson,Diana Hardcastle,Kristin Booth,Rothaford Gray,Janelle Hutchison,Rachel Wilson,Serge Houde,Ava Preston,Angela Besharah,Jonathan Whittaker,LeVar Burton,Ben Vereen,Louis Gossett Jr.,Vic Morrow,Ji-Tu Cumbuka,Edward Asner,Ralph Waite,Robert Reed,Lynda Day George,John Amos,Madge Sinclair,Leslie Uggams,Carolyn Jones,Lloyd Bridges,Georg Stanford Brown,Brad Davis,Hilly Hicks,Lynne Moody,Lane Binkley,Austin Stoker,Sandy Duncan,Chuck Connors,Tracey Gold,Moses Gunn,Thalmus Rasulala,Hari Rhodes,William Watson,Renn Woods,Lorne Greene,Thayer David,Scatman Crothers,George Hamilton,Lillian Randolph,Richard Roundtree,Davis Roberts,Richard McKenzie,John Quade,Cicely Tyson,Tina Andrews,Henry Butts,Joe Dorsey,Kermit Echols,Richard Farnsworth,Ronnie Leggett,Rachel Longaker,Ernest Thomas,Yorick van Wageningen,Jamie Campbell Bower,Raymond Thiry,Melody Klaver,Anneke Blok,Mees Peijnenburg,Jesse van Driel,Dan van Husen,Ad van Kempen,Tygo Gernandt,Ben Ramakers,Tibo Vandenborre,Jens Roth,Peter Eberst,Rupert Grint,David Kross,Stig Henrik Hoff,Lachlan Nieboer,Sondre Krogtoft Larsen,Knut Joner,Kim Haugen,Morten Faldaas,Scott Maguire,Nhem Sokun,Tom Proctor,Nhem Sokunthol,Kanilen Kang,Hun Phach,Kheav Pomsen,Ong Ritthy,Men Sophak,Sun Thaiheng,Kheang Ty,Sean Vandy,Hunh Vitou,Chrem Vutha,Ibrahim Celikkol,Dilek Serbest,Cengiz Coskun,Erden Alkan,Recep Aktug,Raif Hikmet Cam,Naci Adigüzel,Sedat Mert,Mustafa Atilla Kunt,Ozcan Aliser,Yilman Babaturk,Murat Sezal,Faik Aksoy,Huseyin Santur,Qi Shu,Anthony Wong Chau-Sang,Shawn Yue,Yasuaki Kurata,Ryu Kohata,Bo Huang,Kenji Tanigaki,Siyan Huo,Alex Ahlstrom,Zhou Yang,Karl Dominik,Jiajia Chen,Akira,Shi Feng,Andy Lau,Takeshi Kaneshiro,Jinglei Xu,Xiaodong Guo,Jacky Heung,Zongwan Wei,Bao-ming Gu,Kuirong Wang,Bo Zhou,Yachao Wang,Xiao Yun Wang,Peng Guo,Ailei Yu,You Zhang,Andre Jacobs,Olivier Gourmet,Elina Löwensohn,François Marthouret,Michel Gionti,Jean-Christophe Bouvet,Jonathan Pienaar,Rémi Martin,Jean-Jacques Moreau,Cyril Favre,Dominique Ratonnat,Didier Bourguignon,Ralph Amoussou,Alix Serman

Plot:The story of Saartjes Baartman, a Black domestic who, in 1808, left Southern Africa, then ruled by Dutch settlers, for Europe, following her boss Hendrick Caesar , hoping to find fame and fortune there. Once in London her master turned manager does nothing but exhibit her as a freak in a phony and humiliating carnival show. After a series of troubles caused by their act, Caesar, Saartje and their new friend, bear-tamer Réaux, head for Paris where once again, and against her will, she has to mimic savagery and expose her body, first in carnivals, then in the aristocratic salons of Paris, later on among the libertines and finally in brothels where she ends up being a prostitute. In the meantime, French anatomists will have taken an interest in her unusual anatomy (enormous buttocks and labia) only to declare her the missing link from ape to man. In 1815, aged only 27, she dies alone, of a combination of pneumonia and venereal disease.