Why Slavery?
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- Episode
- A Woman Captured
- Broadcast Info
- 2018 (70 mins)
- Description
- A 52-year-old Hungarian woman has been kept by a family as a domestic slave for a decade. Marish has been exploited and abused by a woman for whom she toils as a housekeeper - entirely unpaid, performing all manner of back-breaking household duties seven days a week. In exchange she only gets cigarettes, leftovers and a couch to sleep on. The money she earns from night shifts in a factory are taken away from her. Deprived of her ID and deep in forced debt, she is forbidden to even leave the house without permission. Marish’s 16-year-old daughter ran away a couple of years ago unable to bear her circumstances any longer. Marish lives with too much fear in her heart to leave, but dreams of being reunited with her daughter. A WOMAN CAPTURED is a raw and intimate portrayal of the psychology behind enslavement. Director Bernadett Tuza-Ritter offers an evocative study of a woman so debased and disregarded that even she has lost sight of her own life. Drawing courage from the filmmaker’s presence, Marish eventually reveals her plan: She will leave the unbearable oppression behind and attempt to escape. The film follows a woman’s heroic journey back to freedom. The original feature-length director’s cut.
- Genre
- Law; Philosophy and Ethics; Social Science
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The Open University, "Why Slavery?". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ou/search/index.php/prog/231940 (Accessed 08 Jan 2025)