Empire

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.

• Frederikke AspöckDirector
• Anna Neye PoulsenWriter

• Anna Neye PoulsenAnna
• Sara Fanta TraorePetrine
• Claus Riis ØstergaardPeter Von Scholten
• Jesper GrothAdmiral Irminger
• Tyler Errol MurrayFrederik
• Caroline HendersonGudrun
• James L. SampsonTom
• Søs Sif ThieleMrs. Nielsen
• Jesper AsholtMr. Nielsen
• Anders Brink MadsenMr. Hagensen
• Chérie Celeste MaloneEster
• Prince Yaw AppiahSorte Svend