West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty

• Movie

  Type

• 1979

  Year

• 1h 56m

  Runtime

• ★ 6.5

  Rating

• Music / History / Drama

  Genre

Aboard a giant slave ship in an abandoned Citroën 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.

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Cast

Robert Liensol

Le parlementaire

Roland Bertin

La 'Mort'

Philippe Clévenot

L'abbé

Hélène Vincent

L'assistante sociale

Théo Légitimus

Monnerbourg

Georges Hilarion

Monsieur Belleville

Elliot Roy

L'homme

Cyril Aventurin

Le père de famille

Fernand Berset

L'hôtelier

Gérard Bloncourt

Monsieur De la Pierre

Toto Bissainthe

Soeur Marie Joseph de Cluny

Monique Couturier

La Dame de souten