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RedScharlach
Since: Jul, 2016
30th Aug, 2016 05:57:24 AM
I think this might be A Respectable Trade.
Sisi
Since: Oct, 2012
30th Aug, 2016 12:08:13 PM
Yes! That's it. Thank you!
I used to volunteer at my local library, reshelving booms and movies and such. Anyway, I came across this one film once that kinda sparked my interest, but I never did watch it, and now I can't remember what it's called and can't seem to dig it up by plot. It's a period drama, set in the late 1700's or very early 1800's, before the slave trade was abolished in the UK. From what I remember reading the back of the VHS box (yes, this was on VHS, just before they become fully obsolete in favour of DV Ds and libraries still stocked them) the plot concerns a young women, an intellectual, who's in a loveless marriage with man who's very much not an intellectual. Her husband's job is receiving slaves and training them for service in upper class households in England and the heroine aides him in this, reluctantly I think. Anyway, she meets one of the slaves, a man who happens to be very educated, and as intellectual as she is. And anyway, supposedly, forbidden romance blooms. The box cover had a still of the said slave carrying the women over some water, I think, if that helps.
Edited by Sisi