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.
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
Jean-Paul Denizon
Le representant des patrons
Gabriel Glissant
Le premier acrobate
Elsie Haas
L'infirmière
Blanche Lolia
Mireille
Jenny Alpha
Unknown
Ti-Emile
Unknown
Maîthé Mansoura
Mademoiselle Flocon
Josy Mass
La mère de famille
Véronique Mucret Rouveyrollis
Colibrijoli
Louison Roblin
La tenancière
Mario Santini
Le distributer de tracts
Tara Schaff
L'assistante antillaise
Jean-Pierre Sentier
Responsable politique
André Weber
Ouvrier
Louis Xavier
Goncondor
Crew
Med Hondo
Director, Writer, Producer
Daniel Boukman
Writer, Novel
Youcef Tobni
Editor
François Catonné
Director of Photography
Jean Léon
First Assistant Director
Philippe Dupuis-Mendel
Second Assistant Director
Abdoul War
Second Assistant Director
Jacques Saulnier
Production Design
Ghyslain Martin
Costume Design
Michèle Cerf
Costume Design
Gilles Baur
Animation
Josiane Deschamps
Makeup Designer
Fatiha Robichet
Makeup Artist
Auguste Galli
Sound
Antoine Bonfanti
Sound
Georges Rabol
Original Music Composer, Orchestrator
Frank Valmont
Original Music Composer
Georges Glon
Set Decoration
Linda Dingwall
Choreographer
