West Indies
Directed byMed Hondo
Screenplay byDaniel Boukman
Starring
Music byGeorges Rabol
Release dates
  • 1979 (1979) (Mauritania)
  • 18 March 1985 (1985-03-18) (U.S.)
Running time
110 minutes
CountriesAlgeria
Mauritania
France
LanguageFrench
BudgetUS$ 1.35 million

West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty (French: West Indies ou les Nègres marrons de la liberté) is a 1979 Algerian-Mauritanian French-language drama film directed by Med Hondo.[1] The plot of the film was adopted from a novel titled "Les Negriers" (The Slavers) which was written by Daniel Boukman. The film is highly regarded as a landmark film in the history of African cinema as it was made with a lavish budget of US$1.35 million, making it as one of the biggest budgeted African films ever to be made.[2] The film was set in the backdrop of colonial West Indies which was under the French imperialism.[3][4] The film was set on a French owned slave ship and had its theatrical release in 1979.

Cast

  • Cyril Aventurin as The father
  • Fernand Berset as The hotel manager
  • Roland Bertin as The death
  • Gérard Bloncourt as Monsieur De la Pierre
  • Toto Bissainthe as Sister Marie Joseph de Cluny
  • Philippe Clévenot as The monk
  • Hélène Vincent as The social worker

References

  1. "West Indies". www.locarnofestival.ch. Retrieved 2019-11-25.
  2. "What Nigeria's Nollywood Can Learn from Med Hondo's "West Indies"". MUBI. Retrieved 2019-11-25.
  3. "Med Hondo is the African Auteur You Need to See". TIFF. Retrieved 2019-11-25.
  4. Maslin, Janet (1985-03-08). "'West Indies,' Musical History". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-11-25.


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