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

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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