Black Venus

6.6

France

History Drama

159 min

2010

Yahima Torres Mirabelle Kirkland Ralph Amoussou Didier Bourguignon Jean-Jacques Moreau Rémi Martin Jonathan Pienaar Jean-Christophe Bouvet François Marthouret Elina Löwensohn Olivier Gourmet André Jacobs Emma Gamet

The true story of Saartje Baartman, a black South African worker who moves to London with her master in the early 19th century. Although she dreams of being an artist, once in Europe she is exploited as a sideshow attraction due to her large buttocks and genitalia.