Madame Desbassayns: Myth and Reality of an Icon of Slavery
01/01/2015
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 Deshayes
as Narrator (voice)
Stéphane Thomas
as Madame Desbassayns
David Erudel
as Henri Paulin Panon Desbassayns
Ophélie Galant
as Young Madame Debassayns
Kristof Langromme
as Slave Neptune
Eric Lauret
as Julien Gonneau Montbrun (father)
Muriel Benard
as Marie-Thérèse L. des Sablons (mother)
Francis Convert
as Abbé Macquet
Mickaël Fontaine
as Cavalier Desbassayns
Fabrice Saubert
as Housing Manager
Teddy Lebon
as Charles Desbassayns
Fabrice Payet
as Joseph Desbassayns
Basile Chevalier
as "Montbrun" Desbassayns
Marcelino Rivière
as Julien Augustin Desbassayns
Benjamin Palomé
as Chemist Wetzell
Evelyne Robert
as Servant Marie-Barbe
Arielle Belus
as Slave Honorine
Marie-Dolaine Guichard
as Nénène Madeline
Dina Dianore
as Young Nénène Madeline
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