The Legend of Buchi Fil

trinidad+tobago film festival 2010 screening

Year	2008
Duration	20 minutes
Type	Dramatic short
Country	Curaçao
Language	Dutch and Papiamento, with English subtitles
Director(s)	German Gruber
Rating	All Ages
Contact	germangruber@hotmail.com

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Buchi Fil is a Caribbean legend, the strongest slave who ever lived. In this film, based on a poem by acclaimed Curaçao poet Pierre Laufferm, the plantation master becomes obsessed with breaking Buchi Fil. Only when he sells Buchi Fils’s beloved wife, Mosa Nena, does the proud slave crack. Buchi Fil’s final act shows the power of his spirit and his love.

Trinidad and Tobago premiere.

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