Empire

Drama, Comedy, History

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Frederikke Aspöck

Status Released

Release Date 2023-04-20

Storyline

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.