WEST INDIES OU LES NÈGRES MARRONS DE LA LIBERTÉ
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In an abandoned Citroën factory, in the middle of winter, a slave ship traverses the centuries of colonisation.Adapted from a play, WEST INDIES OU LES NÈGRES MARRONS DE LA LIBERTÉ is a political musical depicting the history of the people of the West Indies from the 17th century to the end of the 1970s, when people started making the crossing in the other direction towards the promised land: France.Filmmaker Med Hondo made a pamphlet against colonisation.Censored by France at the time, his work is as relevant as ever 43 years later.
WEST INDIES OU LES NÈGRES MARRONS DE LA LIBERTÉ Direction: Med Hondo, DCP, frz. OmeU, 115 min