---
title: 'Amistad (1997)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Steven Spielberg'
released: '1997-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 152
genres:
  - 'Drama'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/amistad-1997'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118607/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Amistad (1997)

1997 · 152 min · Drama · United States


## Synopsis

Amistad is a 1997 American historical drama film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by David Franzoni, based on the events in 1839 aboard the Spanish slave ship La Amistad, during which Mende tribesmen abducted for the slave trade managed to gain control of their captors' ship off the coast of Cuba, and the international legal battle that followed their capture by the Washington, a U.S. revenue cutter. The case was ultimately resolved by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1841.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Steven Spielberg](https://cinepixo.com/people/steven-spielberg)
- **Producer:** [Steven Spielberg](https://cinepixo.com/people/steven-spielberg), [Debbie Allen](https://cinepixo.com/people/debbie-allen), [Colin Wilson](https://cinepixo.com/people/colin-wilson-2)
- **Screenplay:** [David Franzoni](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-franzoni)
- **Original Music Composer:** [John Williams](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-williams-2)
- **Director of Photography:** [Janusz Kamiński](https://cinepixo.com/people/janusz-kaminski)
- **Editor:** [Michael Kahn](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-kahn)

## Cast

- [Derrick Ashong](https://cinepixo.com/people/derrick-ashong) as Buakei
- [Darren E. Burrows](https://cinepixo.com/people/darren-e-burrows) as Richard Worsam Meade II
- [Kevin J. O'Connor](https://cinepixo.com/people/kevin-j-o-connor) as Missionary
- [Geno Silva](https://cinepixo.com/people/geno-silva) as José Ruiz
- [Allan Rich](https://cinepixo.com/people/allan-rich) as Andrew T. Judson
- [Cástulo Guerra](https://cinepixo.com/people/castulo-guerra)
- [Gerald R. Molen](https://cinepixo.com/people/gerald-r-molen)
- [Daniel von Bargen](https://cinepixo.com/people/daniel-von-bargen)
- [Nigel Hawthorne](https://cinepixo.com/people/nigel-hawthorne) as Martin Van Buren
- [Pete Postlethwaite](https://cinepixo.com/people/pete-postlethwaite) as William S. Holabird
- [David Paymer](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-paymer) as John Forsyth
- [Paul Guilfoyle](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-guilfoyle) as Attorney
- [Razaaq Adoti](https://cinepixo.com/people/razaaq-adoti) as Yamba
- [Anna Paquin](https://cinepixo.com/people/anna-paquin) as Isabella II of Spain
- [Morgan Freeman](https://cinepixo.com/people/morgan-freeman) as Theodore Joadson

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