Notes

• Special features: Interview with Toni Morrison ; talk by Toni Morrison
• Filming, Gilles Picard, Eric Longs, Beth Fowler, Thomas Sady ; music by Richard Danielpour ; libretto by Toni Morrison
• Denyce Graves, Greg Baker
• Mustapha Hasnaoui’s documentary offers an inside look into the making of Margaret Garner, an opera based upon Toni Morrison’s novel, Beloved. Margaret Garner, a slave separated from her husband by a white slave-owner, was forced to become his mistress. In 1856, she fled from Kentucky with her family to Ohio where she killed her two little girls to prevent them from being enslaved. Through interviews with cast members, Hasnaoui presents the influence this opera has had on issues of race in the present day, as well as the way in which a disturbing part of history is transformed into art
• DVD ; All-Zone NTSC
• No public performance rights included
• In English with optional French subtitles