West Indies(1979)

🎬116 min
📅1979-01-02
🎭Music, History
⭐6.4/10

Overview

Aboard a giant slave ship in an abandoned CitroĂ«n factory, the history of the West Indies is traced through several centuries of French oppression. The ship becomes a stage for the people to tell stories via song and dance—from their enslavement to their displacement in Metropolitan France.

Production

Les Films Soleil O, Office National de Cinema Mauritanian, R.T.A., Societe Interafricaine de Production Cinemagraphique, Yanek Films

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Cast

Robert Liensol
as Le parlementaire
Roland Bertin
as La 'Mort'
Philippe Clévenot
as L'abbé
HélÚne Vincent
as L'assistante sociale
Théo Légitimus
as Monnerbourg
Georges Hilarion
as Monsieur Belleville
Elliot Roy
as L'homme
Cyril Aventurin
as Le pĂšre de famille
Fernand Berset
as L'hĂŽtelier
Gérard Bloncourt
as Monsieur De la Pierre