Black Venus

Plot Summary

The true story of Saartje Baartman, a black South African worker who moves to London with her master in the early 19th century. Although she dreams of being an artist, once in Europe she is exploited as a sideshow attraction due to her large buttocks and genitalia.

6.7 /10

2010

FR

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london, england

france

paris, france

brothel

south africa

pneumonia

domestic life

racism

poverty

prostitution

humiliation

exhibition

aristocrat

colonialism

anatomist

african woman

sexually transmitted disease