Madame Desbassayns: Myth and Reality of an Icon of Slavery

Madame Desbassayns: Myth and Reality of an Icon of Slavery
2015
⏱️ 102 min
📅 Released
🌐 FR
DocumentaryHistoryDrama
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...

Cast

Jacques Deshayes
Jacques Deshayes
Narrator (voice)
Stéphane Thomas
Stéphane Thomas
Madame Desbassayns
David Erudel
David Erudel
Henri Paulin Panon Desbassayns
Ophélie Galant
Ophélie Galant
Young Madame Debassayns
Kristof Langromme
Kristof Langromme
Slave Neptune
Eric Lauret
Eric Lauret
Julien Gonneau Montbrun (father)

Crew

Director
William Cally
Writer
William Cally, Sudel Fuma

Production

Kapali Studios, France Télévisions Distribution, Région Réunion, PROCIREP, Ministère des Outre-Mer, Angoa-Agicoa, CNC, COSIP

Keywords

slaverycolonialismfrench colonialismfrench colonyla réunionmadame desbassyns