https://archive.org/details/west-indies-1979

West Indies ou les nègres marrons de la liberté by Med Hondo

Topics
#frenchcolonialism, #Caribbean, #Antilles, #Caraïbes, #musicals, #musical, #nègresmarrons, #antiblackness, #slavery, #blackchattelslavery, #historicaldrama, #historicaldramas

West Indies ou les nègres marrons de la liberté is a 1979 musical drama film directed by Med Hondo. The plot of the film, centered on french colonialism in the Caribbean, was adopted from the novel Les Négriers by Daniel Boukman. In an interview published the year of the film's release, Hondo said: "I wanted to free the very concept of musical comedy from its American trade mark. I wanted to show that each people on earth has its own musical comedy, its own musical tragedy and its own thoughts shaped through our history."