The Man by the Shore (1993)

Original title

L'Homme sur les quais

Directed by

Raoul Peck

Genre

drama film

Country

Haiti, France, Canada

Runtime

1h 46m

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 11 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young girl named Sarah and her family endure the brutal dictatorship of François Duvalier in Haiti. The film shows how the political terror affects their daily lives and leaves deep emotional scars.

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What happens

The Man by the Shore (French: L'Homme sur les quais) is a 1993 Haitian-French drama film directed by Raoul Peck. It was entered into the 1993 Cannes Film Festival. It was financed by Canada and France. It was released by KJM3 Entertainment Group, an independent film distribution company that also distributed with Kino International, Daughters of the Dust by Julie Dash. The film tells the traumatizing story of Sarah (Jennifer Zubar) and her family during the tyrannical regime of François Duvalier (Papa doc). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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