Sugar Cane Alley

Duration: 103 mi

Year Published: 1983

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Set in Martinique in 1931, this film established 28-year-old Palcy as a major filmmaking talent. Mixing fiction with documentary styles, her film paints a rich portrait of life under French colonial rule. The conditions of black plantation workers are presented from the perspective of a quiet, perceptive 11-year-old orphan who lives with his grandmother. The film charts his rise from shantytown to brilliant student and writer. (Circulates)

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