Sugar Cane Alley (1983)
- Original title
- Rue cases-nègres
- Directed by
- Euzhan Palcy
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- France
- Runtime
- 1h 43m
- Rating
- 6.8 of 10 from 36 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A boy grows up in a poor Martinican village in the 1930s. He works in the sugarcane fields and dreams of a better life through education.
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What happens
Sugar Cane Alley (French title: La Rue Cases-Nègres) is a 1983 film directed by Euzhan Palcy. It is set in Martinique in the 1930s, when black people working sugarcane fields were still treated harshly by their white employers. It is based on a semi-autobiographical novel by Joseph Zobel of the same title (alternatively translated as Black Shack Alley – literally, "Street of the Houses of Negroes"). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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