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"12 Years a Slave" is a 2013 historical drama film directed by Steve McQueen. The screenplay by McQueen and Alex Garland is based on the 1853 slave memoir "Twelve Years a Slave" by Solomon Northup. The film stars Chiwetel Ejiofor as Solomon Northup, a free black man from New York who is kidnapped and sold into slavery in the pre-Civil War South. The movie also stars Michael Fassbender, Lupita Nyong'o, Brad Pitt, and Benedict Cumberbatch.