Sugar Cane Alley

Sugar Cane Alley
Directed byEuzhan Palcy
Written byEuzhan Palcy
Based onSugar Cane Alley by Joseph Zobel
CinematographyDominique Chapuis
Edited byMarie-Josèphe Yoyotte
Music byGroupe Malavoi
Production
companies
NEF Diffusion
Orca Productions
SU.MA.FA.
Distributed byNouvelles Éditions de Films (NEF)
Release date
  • 1983 (1983)
Running time
103 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguagesFrench
Martinican Creole

Sugar Cane Alley (French title: La Rue Cases-Nègres) is a 1983 film directed by Euzhan Palcy. It is set in Martinique in the 1930s, when black people working sugarcane fields were still treated harshly by their white employers. It is based on a semi-autobiographical novel by Joseph Zobel of the same title (alternatively translated as Black Shack Alley; literally "Street of the Houses of Negroes").