SUGAR CANE ALLEY

RUE CASES NEGRES

By Euzhan PALCY

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Historical - Completed 1983


Festivals
& Awards

BFI London FF 2018
Treasures
    • Year of production
    • 1983
    • Genres
    • Historical, Family, Drama
    • Countries
    • FRANCE
    • Languages
    • FRENCH, CREOLE
    • Duration
    • 103 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Euzhan PALCY
    • Writer(s)
    • Euzhan PALCY
    • EIDR
    • 10.5240/76F4-BFA9-B8F3-353F-35AF-7
    • Producer(s)
    • Michel LOULERGUE, Alix REGIS, Claude NEDJAR, Jean-Luc ORMIERES
    • Synopsis
    • 1930: on a sugar cane plantation in Martinique lives José, a bright mischievous 11-year-old and his grandmother, a tough, wise woman determined to save him from the hard life she has known. When Jose wins a scholarship, she is ready to sacrifice everything for his chance at an education and an escape from the fields.