
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...

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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