Grand prize winner of this year's Festival in Toronto!
Film producers awarded the Palme d'Or at Cannes, the Oscar-winning TREE OF LIFE.
Hailed by audiences and critics with an absolute masterpiece.
"Breathtaking in breast"
Anna Tatar - Stopklatka.pl
"Powerful, moving, sometimes even stunning cinema."
Todd McCarthy - Hollywood Reporter
"Captivating, devoid of sentiments odyssey during which Steve McQueen proves how great the progress made since the" Shame "and" Hunger ".
Tim Grierson - Screen International
Filming harrowing memories of Solomon Northup .. It really happened.
The year is 1841. Lives in Washington, DC Solomon Northup - a free and educated man, father of two children, happy husband and a respected citizen - is a ruse kidnapped and sold to slave traders. So begins lasting 12 years dramatic and extraordinary odyssey of a man who, despite surrounding the brutal reality of trying to survive and never lose hope of freedom.
A free man will remain so forever.