Gabriel Glissant
Actor
Movies4
Movie6.5MusicHistoryAboard 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.
West Indies ou les Nègres marrons de la liberté
West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty
1979 · 16 votes
Movie6.8DramaAn educated native of Mauritania tries to find work in Paris but encounters difficulty because of his race.
Soleil O
1973 · 28 votes
Movie5.0A French TV movie directed by Jean-Christophe Averty , broadcast on December 24, 1964 . The Old Testament set in Louisiana with an all black cast.
Les verts pâturages
1964 · 1 votes
Movie6.5DocumentaryDramaFor 'Et les chiens se taisaient' Maldoror adapted a piece of theatre by the poet and politician Aimé Césaire (1913–2008), about a rebel who becomes profoundly aware of his otherness when condemned to death. His existential dialogue with his mother reverberates around the African sculptures on display at the Musée de l'Homme, a Parisian museum full of colonial plunder whose director was the Surrealist anthropologist Michel Leiris.