Roots (TV series, 2016)

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Television series
German title Roots
Original title Roots
Country of production United States
original language English
year 2016
length approx. 100 (USA)
approx. 50 (D) minutes
Episodes 4 (USA)
8 (D) in 1 season ( list )
genre Historical drama
music Alex Heffes , Philip Miller
First broadcast May 30, 2016 (USA) on Lifetime , A&E , History , Lifetime Movie Network
German-language
first broadcast		 April 14, 2017 on History
occupation

Roots (English for "roots") is an American miniseries based on the novel Roots ( Roots: The Saga of an American Family) by Alex Haley and a new edition of the series of the same name from 1977. The focus of the story is initially Kunta Kinte kidnapped from Gambia and sold to the New World by British slave traders . After that, the story of his children and grandchildren is told over seven generations up to the abolition of slavery. It premiered in the US on May 30, 2016, simultaneously on Lifetime , A&E , History, and Lifetime Movie Network. In Germany, the series was broadcast on the German pay TV channel History at Easter 2017   .

action

In Juffure in the West African Gambia , Omoro Kinte and his wife Binta had a son in 1750. They call him Kunta. When he was 15 years old, Kunta received an education in the African art of war. This also includes the javelin drill by Kintango. During this time Sitafa is a friend of Kunta. Kunta soon falls in love with Jinna, who has already been promised to a boy from a rival tribe. This tribe makes common cause with slave traders. One day in 1767, Kunta and his mentor Silla Ba Dibba are ambushed and kidnapped. The now 17-year-old Mandinka warrior is sold to British slave traders who take him to the New World on a slave ship . The conditions on the ship are inhuman and Kunta plans a rebellion with his fellow slaves, but it fails.

In Maryland the prisoners are offered as " niggers " at a slave market . Kunta is bought by the planter John Waller and he takes him to his plantation in Virginia , where he becomes the friend of the long-serving slave Fiddler. Waller's wife Elizabeth gives Kunta the slave name Toby. Because he does not want to give up his Mandinka name immediately and rejects the new name, he is flogged by the sadistic guard Connelly.

One day red coats come to the plantation to incite the slaves to flee so that they can then join the English army. Although Kunta manages to escape, shortly afterwards he is caught by slave catchers and whipped as a punishment. To make sure he never escapes again, they cut off half of his foot with an ax.

Because John Waller later gets into economic difficulties, he sells Fiddler and Kunta to his younger brother William, who is outraged by Kunta's mutilation. There he meets Belle, who was born a slave and has been in Williams' service for many years. The two get married. While she has come to terms with her fate, Kunta can never really give up his African identity. The couple have a daughter who is named Kizzy. Missy, the daughter of John Waller, secretly teaches Kizzy to read and write. When she was a teenager, she was able to forge papers for the young slave Noah in order to enable him to find freedom. When this is discovered, Kizzy is sold to the poor farmer Tom Lea. Immediately after their arrival she is raped by him and later gives birth to a son whom they call George.

When George was older, he played cockfighting , a passion inherited from his gambling dad Tom, which gave him his nickname Chicken George. His father also benefits from his talent. However, George inherited the desire for freedom from his mother Kizzy. She had promised her father Kunta Kinte that she would pass the pride in her African heritage on to her descendants. George marries Matilda, the daughter of a preacher, and he has many children with her. They call their eldest son Tom in honor of his father. George believes that one day he can buy his family and himself out. When his father offers him one day to release him if he wins a cockfight against an Englishman and offers himself as a stake because Tom Lea has no money to bet, George hopes that his wish will finally come true Fulfills. After George wins the first fight, his father makes a second bet with the Englishman. This time he and his father lose, and George is taken to England as agreed .

More than 20 years later, George is released after working as a teacher in England and returns to America. When he gets to his father's farm, he learns that his family has been sold to North Carolina while he was away . Benjamin Murray, their new owner, allows George to live on the plantation with his wife. His son Tom has become a man and he works as a valued blacksmith on the plantation. Tom has become the new head of the family. He is angry with his father and accuses George of abandoning his family.

The Civil War is still going on and George is serving in the Union Army . Here he meets the black Cyrus, with whom he fights in the battle for Fort Pillow . Following the battle, Confederate soldiers massacre Union prisoners of war. George and Cyrus barely survive and go back to the Murray plantation. Slavery has now been abolished by the 13th Amendment , but Benjamin Murray's son Frederick does not want to release it. They kill him and all go to Tennessee together to start a new life there.

In 1976, Alex Haley , a seventh generation descendant of Kunta Kinte, published the book Roots: The Saga of an American Family .

production

Production history and templates

Alex Haley , the author of the novel
Laurence Fishburne lends his voice to Alex Haley on the series

In his novel, Roots: The Saga of an American Family , Alex Haley had told an entire nation the brutal history of slavery that had previously been criminally understated in textbooks, let alone in Hollywood films and television programs. To this day, Roots is considered one of the most important literary works on slavery in the United States and the identification of the Afro-American population. The book stayed on the New York Times bestseller list for months and topped it for 22 weeks.

Haley's novel got millions of Americans to look at their origins and rediscover their own family history in the process. This was not only true for colored people. Genealogy was the source from which the novel was inspired and developed, and slavery is at the center of this story, but is not the main subject. Roots is a story about how the Mandinka warrior Kunta Kinte , who was snatched from his homeland, managed to leave a valuable legacy to his family despite all adversities. Alex Haley himself belongs to this family.

A year after the publication of the Pulitzer Prize- winning novel for Haley , ABC began airing a series based on the book in the spring of 1977 . The series is still considered a milestone in American television history. Never before had the story of the enslavement of African Americans in the United States been presented to mainstream audiences in such a broad and effective way. The biggest street sweeper of the 1970s, Roots had up to 130 million viewers, and the series received 37 Emmy nominations and won a Golden Globe Award for best drama series .

The series was re-launched in the fall of 2013, just months after neighborhood security guard George Zimmerman was acquitted in Florida for killing teenage Trayvon Martin , a 17-year-old African American high school student, for citing self-defense as grounds. After that, Black Lives Matter had developed on social media , a movement that campaigns against violence against black people. The new edition of Roots joins a series of productions that followed this movement and deal with violence against African Americans and among themselves. Chris Vognar of The Dallas Morning feels particularly in the scene in Roots in which a young, unarmed slave shot but the story of Martin, including the murder of Michael Brown , Eric Garner , Freddie Gray , Sandra Bland and Oscar Grant recalls . Others, on the other hand, no longer wanted to see films and series that had the black population as their theme, including some African-Americans themselves, such as Snoop Dogg .

Malachi Kirby , the show's lead actor, said that racism still exists and that this was one of the reasons the show retold that story to appeal to people who, if they are not ready to learn, keep doing it continue what happened in the past. For those suffering from a hangover from slave stories, possibly caused by renewed interest in Hollywood, including the Oscar-winning 12 Years a Slave , the new television series Underground, and the highly anticipated film The Birth of a Nation by Nate Parker , said involved actress Anika Noni Rose that the story presented in Roots is a counter-narrative addressed to anyone who believes the dawn of African American slavery began.

Staff and cast

LeVar Burton played Kunta Kinte in the original series and was one of the executive producers in the new edition

The German-born, Emmy- nominated actor and director LeVar Burton , who played Kunta Kinte in the original series from 1977 as a then 19-year-old student in the lead role and later mainly through his role as Geordi La Forge in the series Raumschiff Enterprise - Das next century , acted as executive producer of the remake of the series. Burton later said he believed that 2016 was perfect for the series to appear because there was an entire generation of Americans who didn't know the story.

Even Mark Wolper , who served as another executive producer of the series, has a personal relationship with the series template. He is the son of David L. Wolper , who produced the original series in 1977. Wolper described it as difficult to find directors, scriptwriters, actors, producers, and cameramen for the new edition of the series because they were initially reluctant to work on it. Many African American scriptwriters did not want to touch the almost 40 year old source material, other authors refused to incorporate it.

Forest Whitaker plays the slave Fiddler in the series

Ultimately, Lawrence Konner , Alison McDonald and Charles Murray began work on the script. Various people also directed it, Phillip Noyce , Mario van Peebles , Thomas Carter and Bruce Beresford .

The main role of Kunta Kinte was cast by British actor Malachi Kirby . Using a three-week paleo diet in preparation for this role, Kirby lost weight to fit the image of the sinewy African warrior. In addition, Kirby had to learn the Mandinka language and their manners and customs and also learn to ride bareback. Since Kirby knew nothing of his genetic origins and also nothing about where his ancestors came from before his grandparents, he had undergone a DNA test before filming began , which all actors could have voluntarily. The result was that 75 percent of Kirby's DNA came from West Africa, 20 percent from South Asia, and 1.8 percent from Europe.

Forest Whitaker took on the role of Fiddler on the series, Jonathan Rhys Meyers played Tom Lea, and Laurence Fishburne lends his voice to Alex Haley as the narrator. A large number of well-known series actors can be seen in just one episode in Roots , LeVar Burton in a cameo. The fact that none of the actors can be seen in all four episodes is due to the fact that the series is an epic generational panorama that extends over more than 100 years.

Filming

The uMlalazi River in KwaZulu-Natal served as the backdrop for the river landscape in which Kunta Kinte was born

Filming began in September 2015. In autumn 2015, the shooting took place in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal in and around the coastal city of Mtunzini , in the south of Durban and in the city of Eshowe , which is considered the oldest city founded by Europeans in Zululand. A body of water in uMlalazi and the Dlinza Forest near Eshowe were used for the recordings of the African river landscape in which Kunta Kinte was born and in particular can be seen in the first episode . Further recordings for the first episode were made in Cape Town .

For the scenes that show Kunta Kinte and other slaves on the crossing to the New World, the film crew recreated a real ship that was the size of a slave ship that was actually used in the past. There were up to 200 actors and extras on board, mostly African. These were crammed together in a very small space on the specially equipped slave deck, an area below the main deck and above the cargo hold, and had to wear chains. During the approximately two weeks of filming, the actors were instructed to scream, moan and sing, which, according to Malachi Kirby, was not a particular challenge in this environment, even for an amateur actor.

In St. Francisville , a number of preserved plantations and historic buildings found
A historic building in the Rural Life Museum, Baton Rouge

The actors involved were free to choose whether they would wear real or fake chains during filming. According to Kirby, he chose real ones so that they wouldn't break if he tried to break free from them in his role. Physically, filming on the ship was a big challenge for the main actor. According to Wolper, when he was standing on the boat surrounded by wind machines in the artificial rain, Kirby deliberately refrained from wearing a warming blanket or coat in order to be able to immerse himself deeper in the role.

Filming took place in New Orleans from August 20, 2015 to February 1, 2016 . Filming locations included the Longue Vue Gardens museum complex, the Lakefront Arena Aquatic Center and the city park. In February 2016, filming continued in the city of St. Francisville , also in Louisiana. The filming locations here were the Imahara Botanical Gardens and the Madewood and Oak Alley plantations. Kirby had entered a plantation for the first time during the shooting. The nearby evergreen plantation in Edgard , where films like Django Unchained and Abraham Lincoln Vampire Slayer were previously filmed, served as the setting for John Waller's farm. Films such as 12 Years a Slave and The Forbidden Key had previously been made on the Felicity Plantation in Vacherie , which can be seen in the series as the estate of William Waller . The site offered a large number of well-preserved buildings, including the main house, a barn and the slave quarters. For about five weeks filming took place on the Madewood plantation in Napoleonville . The scenes created there are shown in episode four of the series and are set in the American Civil War . Other locations were also in Louisiana, including Tickfaw State Park in Springfield , St. Joseph Abbey in Saint Benedict near Covington and the Rural Life Museum in Baton Rouge .

It was a real whip that Kirby was punished with in the role of Kunta Kinte. However, it had never really touched him, and so Kirby had to react accordingly to the sound of the lashes. In this scene, in which Kirby was tied with ropes, he collapsed during filming when LeVar Burton was present because he said he was suddenly extremely emotionally moved by the story at that moment. Kirby later said that his colleague Forest Whitaker had been of great help during the filming.

The production budget for the miniseries was nearly $ 50 million.

Sound and music

The theme tune, which can be heard throughout the series, was called Binta and was composed by Ahmir Thompson , who also served as executive music producer on the series. According to Thompson, it is a song that Kunta Kinte's grandmother sings while working in the fields at the beginning of the first episode, and the catchy melody, anchored in the memory of her descendants, continues over all the other generations shown in the series in America. Thompson said the story Roots told was too important to him not to be a part of. He started working on the series because he hoped it would spark conversations about the story, which is not just black or white, but just a very human one. Thompson was commissioned by Will Packer , one of the executive producers, in the summer of 2014, alongside Alex Heffes , to create authentic, African sounds and a sound for the individual characters, but also to create music that encompasses all of them spanning four episodes. Another song that connects all four episodes of the series is Born This Way . The song was contributed by Jason Boyd and Jared Gustadt , a co-founder of Jingle Punks .

The sounds of Djembén in the series are reminiscent of Chicken George's African descent

Many other pieces of music and sounds in the series were composed and recorded by Alex Heffes. Heffes said that he made some recordings of chants and instruments to be heard in Gambia, the country in which Kunta Kinte was born in the series. One song was sung by Sherrifo Konteh , another by Sona Jobarteh , who comes from a family of griots , singing Gambian storytellers and poets, including her grandfather Amadou Bansang Jobarteh . The chants of children from a school named after the famous griot have also been recorded and can be heard in the second episode of the series. Heffes also used a variety of African flutes, percussion instruments, traditional drums and plucked instruments, such as a number of Mbiras . The further the series progressed, the less African and harder the sounds were designed, which should make the feeling of alienation of Kunta Kinte and his descendants from their African roots clear. Nevertheless, the recordings made in Africa were still included. So the grandson of Kunta Kinte, next will be the theme song of Chicken George, banjos and a washboard in the background also djembes heard.

Costumes and equipment

Ruth E. Carter , for their work on Malcolm X and Amistad - The slave ship as best costume designer for two Oscars was nominated, took over in Roots producing the clothes of the performers. For the slaves she only made a summer and a winter outfit, but no coats and shoes. For her work on Roots , Carter received an Emmy nomination for Best Costumes in a Miniseries. The production designer Alice Baker , who was nominated for an Oscar for her work on the film 12 Years a Slave , took over the equipment of the series together with Ida Random . For the battle at Fort Pillow , they had fortresses built as backdrops that came close to the originals of the battle of April 12, 1864, and made cannons and rifles that corresponded to that time. The filming of this war scene ended up being done with real mud and fake blood, as Bruce Beresford , the director of the last episode of the series, put it.

publication

The first episode of the series was pre- screened on April 21, 2016 at the Tribeca Film Festival in the presence of the lead actor Malachi Kirby. Also in April 2016, the series by Anna Paquin , Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Anika Noni Rose was presented internationally for the first time on the opening night of MIPTV in Cannes , an annual trade fair for television formats.

On May 17, 2016, scenes from the series were shown as part of a white house screening . For a subsequent discussion in the South Court Auditorium stood next to Kirby, who was in Washington for the first time, the directors Mario van Peebles and Phillip Noyce , the actors Forest Whitaker and Anika Noni Rose, the cast of the original series LeVar Burton , the producers Will Packer and Mark Wolper and Nancy Dubuc , President of A&E Network .

From May 18, 2016 History put in his Youtube channel the actors involved in several meet-the-cast Clips and on May 19, 2016 in the 2:15 min long accompanying material to Serire Roots: A New Vision for a New Generation more people involved in the production. This contains conversations with people involved in the series.

The series was mentioned again and again in the same breath as the television series Underground and the film The Birth of a Nation , which premiered only a few months earlier and both have an initial story similar to Roots . Kirby said that the time of slavery should be discussed because people don't really understand this historical period, and Roots could provide a better understanding of it. In the run-up to the first broadcast of the series, the rapper Snoop Dogg had called for their boycott. He explained that he was tired of seeing portraits that deal with the history of the black population.

The entire series was broadcast for the first time on May 30, 2016, Memorial Day in the USA , simultaneously on Lifetime , A&E , History and Lifetime Movie Network.

On June 3, 2016, the day after the last episode of the series first aired, the American History Channel featured some of the leading historians with an unbiased view of the history of slavery in the hour-long documentary Roots: A History Revealed in the USA and took a closer look at the facts presented in the series. On June 4, 2016, History published the one-hour behind-the-scenes special Roots: A New Vision with the actors of the series, as well as interviews with the producers and with other historians who dealt with the question of the authenticity of the series and delve into the accuracy of historical details and examine how the 1977 original series became a blockbuster.

On August 23, 2016, the series was Lions Gate Home Entertainment as Blu-ray and DVD releases. From September 15, 2016, the series was also shown on the video-on-demand service Hulu .

The opening film of the series was presented at the Filmfest Cologne on October 12 and 13, 2016 . On the Easter weekend of 2017, the series was broadcast for the first time in Germany in a German synchronization on four evenings on the pay-TV channel History . At the same time, the thematically related US historical film The Birth of a Nation - Uprising for Freedom by Nate Parker came into German cinemas, which also deals with slavery in the United States. The TV premiere of Roots was supplemented by the one-hour documentaries Roots: The history of slavery and Roots: The documentary on the series after the series broadcast.

reception

Reviews

The new edition of the series was able to convince 97 percent of the critics at Rotten Tomatoes and emerged as the winner of the 18th Annual Golden Tomato Awards in the category Best TV Movie / Miniseries 2016 .

Carla Renata of the African-American Film Critics Association wants people to watch the show carefully so that they can learn something of the story that America seems to be increasingly forgetting but should not forget. Renata says: Roots doesn't just talk about slavery, the N- word or pain. It's about the courage and survival of a group of people who are indestructible. [...] Keep an eye on Emayatzy Corinealdi and Anika Noni Rose for the future. These young women are a team that, together with their colleagues Malachi Kirby and Forest Whitaker , can count on awards for their brilliance .

Jeff Jensen of Entertainment Weekly says a story that is moved forward by the narrative and the remarkable acting with emotional depth and physicality keep you occupied as a viewer of the series. The idea of ​​the slaves' ambivalence towards the war of independence and their attitude towards love, family and religion also testified to great empathy, says Jensen.

References to current events

Washington Post's Bethonie Butler wonders whether the remake of Roots can help understand America's current interracial conflict. Butler recalls that Barack Obama's presidency and the Black Lives Matter movement that arose out of responding to the deaths of unarmed black men and women at the hands of police officers have revealed deep unrest in America, and it emerged from a long history of racist injustice. His colleague Hank Stuever attests that the new edition of the series fulfills its primary obligation to be a saga and therefore also reflects what the last 40 years would have meant for the collective understanding of black history .

Comparison with the original series

Although the central coordinates of the story remain untouched in the new edition, some important shifts can be seen in the details, and in some aspects the new series is closer to the book than the original series from 1977. The first of the four episodes takes significantly more time used to describe Kunta Kintes youth in his home village Juffure , in what is now the Gambia . The tragically failing uprising that Kunta instigates on the slave ship is also staged more elaborately than in the original series and shows in an explicit depiction of violence that the remake takes no account of this.

Gerhard Midding from Spex explains that the remake was consistently told from Kunta's and his descendants' perspective, and that abrupt, shocking breaks opened up the epic narrative flow. This subjectification of the gaze is not narrow, says Midding, but opens up a gain in complexity, since the camera is now more agile in accessing reality. The remake better historical inconsistencies according to the original, place absolute value on authenticity in the choice of the locations and the drawing of the characters and take up the results of migration research , which was still in its infancy at the time. As Kunta, Malachi Kirby is also more alert and aggressive than his predecessor LeVar Burton , according to Midding.

Audience and success

The first episode of Roots , which aired at the same time as the final encounter between Oklahoma City Thunder and the Golden State Warriors in the NBA playoffs on Memorial Day, drew 5.3 million viewers, the highest ratings of any miniseries opening episode in the U.S. American cable television for the past three years. Other estimates even assume 6.9 million viewers and 14.4 million viewers over the week. Each episode was watched by an average of 6.2 million viewers, and the series had a total of 50.6 million viewers across all channels.

Awards

Black Reel Awards 2017

Critics' Choice Television Awards Dec. 2016

Hollywood Professional Association Awards 2016

  • Awarded the HPA Trophy in the category Outstanding Editing - Television (episode Night One )

Emmy Awards 2016

  • Nomination for Best Miniseries
  • Nomination for Best Narrator ( Laurence Fishburne )
  • Nomination in the category Best Casting in a Miniseries
  • Nomination in the category Best Costumes in a Miniseries
  • Nomination in the category of best hairstyling in a mini-series
  • Nomination in the category Best Sound Editing in a Miniseries
  • Nomination in the category of best makeup in a mini-series
  • Nomination in the category Short-Form-Nonfiction (for the behind-the-scenes special Roots: A New Vision )

Hollywood Music In Media Awards 2016

Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild Awards 2017

NAACP Image Awards 2017

  • Nomination for Outstanding Television Movie, Limited Series or Dramatic Special
  • Nomination as Outstanding Actor in a Television Movie, Limited Series or Dramatic Special (Malachi Kirby)
  • Nomination as Outstanding Actress in a Television Movie, Limited Series or Dramatic Special (Anika Noni Rose)
  • Nomination as Outstanding Actress in a Television Movie, Limited Series or Dramatic Special (Emayatzy Corinealdi)
  • Nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Youth (Series, Special, Television Movie or Limited series) ( Emyyri Crutchfield )
  • Nomination for Outstanding Documentary - (Television) (for the documentary for the series Roots: A History Revealed )
  • Award as Outstanding Documentary - (Television) (for the behind-the-scenes special Roots: A New Vision )
  • Nomination in the category Outstanding Writing in a Motion Picture - (Television) ( Alison McDonald - Roots (Night 2)
  • Award in the category Outstanding Writing in a Motion Picture - (Television) ( Charles Murray - Roots (Night 3)
  • Nomination in the category Outstanding Directing in a Motion Picture (Television) ( Mario Van Peebles - Roots (Night 2)
  • Nomination in the category Outstanding Directing in a Motion Picture (Television) (Thomas Carter - Roots (Night 3)

Television Critics Association Awards 2016

  • Nomination for Best Miniseries

VES Awards 2017

  • Nomination in the category Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Photoreal Episode (Night 1)

Writers Guild of America Awards 2017

  • Nomination in the Longform - Adapted category

Young Artist Awards 2017

  • Award for best actress in a television series in the Young Actress category ( Saniyya Sidney )

Episode list

No. German title Original title First broadcast in the USA German language first broadcast (D) Director script
1 I'm Kunta Kinte (Episode 1)
In Chains (Episode 2) 		Night 1 May 30, 2016 April 14, 2017 Phillip Noyce Lawrence Konner
In the river basin of the Gambia , Omoro Kinte and his wife Binta had a son in 1750. They call him Kunta. In 1767, the now seventeen-year-old Mandinka boy was kidnapped and sold to British slave traders who took him on a slave ship to the New World and sold him as a " nigger " at a slave market in Maryland . Kunta is bought by the planter John Waller and he takes him to his plantation in Virginia , where he becomes the friend of the long-serving slave Fiddler.
2 New Life (Episode 3)
Snatched (Episode 4) 		Night 2 May 31, 2016 April 15, 2017 Mario van Peebles Alison McDonald
One day red coats come to the plantation to incite the slaves to flee so that they can then join the English army. Although Kunta manages to escape, shortly afterwards he is caught by slave catchers and whipped as a punishment. To make sure he never escapes again, they cut off half of his foot with an ax. Because John Waller later got into economic difficulties, he sold Fiddler and Kunta to his younger brother William. There Kunta meets the slave Belle, whom he marries. The couple have a daughter, Kizzy. She is later sold to Tom Lea, raped by him and gives birth to a son, whom they call George.
3 Bloody Duel (Episode 5)
Betrayed (Episode 6) 		Night 3 June 1, 2016 April 16, 2017 Thomas Carter Charles Murray
When George is older, he holds cockfights , which gives him his nickname Chicken George. He marries Matilda, the daughter of a preacher, and he has many children with her. Due to a bet his father loses, George is brought to England.
4th Return (episode 7)
Free at last (episode 8) 		Night 4 2nd June 2016 17th April 2017 Bruce Beresford Lawrence Konner
Twenty years later, George returns to America. After finding his family again, he serves in the Union Army in the Civil War. After the war, the 13th Amendment abolished slavery, and George and his family went to Tennessee to start a new life.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Marisa Guthrie: 'Roots' Reborn: How a Slave Saga Was Remade for the Black Lives Matter Era In: The Hollywood Reporter, May 25, 2016.
  2. ↑ Roots: The Saga of An American Family ( Memento of the original from November 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.alex-haley.com archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: alex-haley.com. Retrieved July 10, 2016.
  3. ↑ a b c Carla Renata: 'Roots': Slavery Saga or History Lesson ( Memento of the original from July 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / aafca.com archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: aafca.com, June 1, 2016.
  4. ↑ a b c d Gian-Philip Andreas: Roots In: wunschliste.de. Retrieved July 10, 2016.
  5. ↑ Chris Vognar: Slavery Stories in the age of #BlackLivesMatter In: The Dallas Morning News, May 28, 2016.
  6. ↑ Erin CJ Robertson: Actress Anika Noni Rose Talks the Glory of African Civilization & Importance of Countering Revisionist History in 'Roots' Remake In: okayafrica.com, May 23, 2016.
  7. ↑ Bethonie Butler: Can the new 'Roots' help us understand America's current racial divide? In: The Washington Post, May 27, 2016.
  8. ↑ Steve Rose: Malachi Kirby on remaking Roots: 'I could feel the pain, hear the screams' In: The Guardian, May 24, 2016.
  9. ↑ a b c d e Malachi Kirby in conversation with John Jurgensen: Actor Malachi Kirby Steps Into Historic Role in 'Roots' Remake In: The Wall Street Journal, May 30, 2016.
  10. ↑ James Poniewozik: Review: 'Roots' for a Black Lives Matter Era In: The New York Times, May 29, 2016.
  11. ↑ Filming for Roots remake boosts KZN In: filmcontact.com, October 6, 2015.
  12. ↑ a b c Mike Scott: Where was the 'Roots' remake filmed? In: nola.com, June 8, 2016.
  13. ↑ Lisa Leblanc-Berry: The Louisiana-shot Remake of 'Roots' Premieres In: Louisiana Life - myneworleans.com, May / June 2016.
  14. ↑ http://www.thewrap.com/roots-producer-says-whipping-scene-made-star-malachi-kirby-collapse/
  15. ↑ a b Roots: Questlove (Ahmir Thompson) - Executive Music Producer. Meet the Cast In: youtube.com, May 16, 2016.
  16. ↑ Emily Morgan: 'Roots' 2016 Miniseries: Music from Questlove and Poo Bear In: heavy.com, May 31, 2016.
  17. ↑ Whitney Friedlander: 'Roots' TV Revival Sets Directors, Questlove as Music Producer In: Variety, July 22, 2015.
  18. ↑ Daniel Schweiger: Interview with Alex Heffes In: filmmusicmag.com, May 24, 2016.
  19. ^ Cori Murray: Revisiting 'Roots'. In: Questia, Vol. 47, No. 1, 2016.
  20. ↑ Bruce Beresford: Return to Roots In: spectator.co.uk, December 12, 2015.
  21. ↑ Antwaun Sargent: The Team behind History's Roots Miniseries explained the Slavery Drama's Relevance at Tribeca 2016 In: tribecafilm.com, April 22, 2016.
  22. ↑ Elsa Keslassy: Mip TV: 'Roots' to Have International Premiere on Opening Night In: Variety, February 24, 2016.
  23. ↑ Elsa Keslassy: MipTV: 'Roots' Makes Impactful Bow at Cannes Confab In: Variety, April 4, 2016.
  24. ^ 'Roots' at the White House In: whitehouse.gov. Retrieved July 9, 2016.
  25. ↑ Roots: A New Vision for a New Generation In: youtube.com, May 19, 2016.
  26. ↑ Bethonie Butler: Can the new 'Roots' help us understand America's current racial divide? In: The Washington Post, May 27, 2016.
  27. ↑ Freddie Allen: 'Roots' remake targets younger audience In: Louisiana Weekly, June 6, 2016.
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