West Indies

West Indies (1979)

TMDb

6.4

02/01/1979 • 1h 56m
original-title

West Indies ou les Nègres marrons de la liberté

status

Released

production-companies

Les Films Soleil O

Office National de Cinema Mauritanian

R.T.A.

Societe Interafricaine de Production Cinemagraphique

Yanek Films

original-language

French

budget

$1,350,000

revenue

-

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.

director
production-countries

Algeria

France

Mauritania

spoken-languages

French

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