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West Indies

6.4 116 mins Music   History   1979
Les Films Soleil O   Office National de Cinema Mauritanian   R.T.A.   Societe Interafricaine de Production Cinemagraphique   Yanek Films  
Director(s): Med Hondo

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.

Casts of West Indies

Robert Liensol

as Le parlementaire

Roland Bertin

as La 'Mort'

Philippe Clévenot

as L'abbé

Hélène Vincent

as L'assistante sociale

Théo Légitimus

as Monnerbourg

Georges Hilarion

as Monsieur Belleville

Elliot Roy

as L'homme

Cyril Aventurin

as Le père de famille

Fernand Berset

as L'hôtelier

Gérard Bloncourt

as Monsieur De la Pierre

Toto Bissainthe

as Soeur Marie Joseph de Cluny

Monique Couturier

as La Dame de souten

Jean-Paul Denizon

as Le representant des patrons

Gabriel Glissant

as Le premier acrobate

Elsie Haas

as L'infirmière

Blanche Lolia

as Mireille

Maîthé Mansoura

as Mademoiselle Flocon

Josy Mass

as La mère de famille

Louison Roblin

as La tenancière

Mario Santini

as Le distributer de tracts

Tara Schaff

as L'assistante antillaise

Jean-Pierre Sentier

as Responsable politique

André Weber

as Ouvrier

Louis Xavier

as Goncondor

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