Rue Cases-Nègres = Sugar cane alley / a New Yorker Films release ; NEF Diffusion ; NEF présente ; une production SU. MA. FA. ; régie générale, Jean-Denis Berenbaum ; une co-production SU.MA.FA Productions, ORCA Productions, NEF Diffusion ; adaptation-dialogues, réalisation, Euzhan Palcy.

The teenage life and adventures of young José, who lives in a shanty-town on Martinique in the mid-1930s, comprises the body of this film. José lives with his grandmother and is well aware of the French colonial presence. He gets into mischief, learns valuable lessons on living from an old former sl...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Rue Cases-Nègres (Motion picture)
Corporate Authors: Malavoi (Musical group) (Composer)
New Yorker Films (Production company)
New Yorker Video (Firm) (Production company)
Nouvelles éditions de films (Firm) (Production company)
SU.MA.FA. Productions (Production company)
Orca Productions (Production company)
Other Authors: Berenbaum, Jean-Denis (Film director)
Palcy, Euzhan (Screenwriter, Film director)
Cadenat, Garry (Actor)
Légitimus, Darling (Actor)
Seck, Douta (Actor)
Bernabé, Joby (Actor)
Charles, Francisco (Actor)
Chapuis, Dominique, 1948-2001 (director of photography.)
Yoyotte, Marie-Josèphe (Editor of moving image work)
Zobel, Joseph
Language:French
English
Language of the Original:
French
Language and/or Writing System:
French dialogue with optional English subtitles.
Published: [New York] : New Yorker Video, [2004]
Series:Rovi Media Collection. Movies.
Subjects:
Poor children > Martinique > Drama.
Poor families > Martinique > Drama.
Plantation workers > Martinique > Drama.
Sugarcane industry > Martinique > Drama.
Martinique > Drama.
Martinique > Economic conditions.
Martinique > Social conditions.
Coming of age > Drama.
Economic history.
Plantation workers.
Poor children.
Poor families.
Social conditions.
Sugarcane industry.
Martinique.
Enfants pauvres > Martinique > Drame.
Fiction films.
French language films.
Feature films > France.
Foreign language films > French.
Family > Feature.
Youth > Feature.
Feature films.
Coming-of-age films.
Historical films.
Film adaptations.
Drama.
Genre:
Drama.
Fiction films.
French language films.
Feature films
Foreign language films
Family
Youth
Feature films.
Coming-of-age films.
Historical films.
Film adaptations.
Feature.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Variant Title:
Sugar cane alley. [Parallel title]
Sugarcane alley.
Black shack alley.
Format: Video DVD

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