Skimming production announcements sitting in my inbox today, was this Danish production directed by Daniel Dencik, titled "Gold Coast," starring Jakob Oftebro.
The story, which is based on real events, and which tells "a dark, now almost forgotten chapter of European history," is about the illegal Danish slave trade, set in the 1830’s, as Dane Wulff Joseph Wulff arrives in Africa – specifically, the "Gold Coast," what is now Ghana, in West Africa – to set up plantations. While there, he naturally falls in love with a slave girl, despite the fact that he has a fiancee at home in Denmark. And with the young slave girl’s help, he exposes the…
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