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Madame Desbassayns: Myth and Reality of an Icon of Slavery
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Madame Desbassayns: Myth and Reality of an Icon of Slavery

2015
Directed byWilliam Cally
1h 42m

The life of Mrs. Desbassayns is exceptional in more than one way in the history of slavery on the island of Réunion. Married at the age of 15 to the forty-year-old Henri-Paulin Panon Desbassayns, this young Creole woman named Hombeline Gonneau immediately embarked on an extraordinary journey. She found herself, in fact, at the head of the most powerful landowning family...

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Jacques DeshayesNarrator (voice)Stéphane ThomasMadame Desbassayns
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David Erudel
Henri Paulin Panon Desbassayns
Ophélie GalantYoung Madame Debassayns
Kristof LangrommeSlave Neptune
Eric LauretJulien Gonneau Montbrun (father)
Muriel BenardMarie-Thérèse L. des Sablons (mother)
Francis ConvertAbbé Macquet
Mickaël FontaineCavalier Desbassayns
Fabrice SaubertHousing Manager
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GENRES
DocumentaryHistoryDrama
STATUSReleased
RATING
NR

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