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Sugar Cane Alley | |
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Directed by | Euzhan Palcy |
Written by | Euzhan Palcy |
Based on | Sugar Cane Alley by Joseph Zobel |
Cinematography | Dominique Chapuis |
Edited by | Marie-Josèphe Yoyotte |
Music by | Groupe Malavoi |
Production companies | NEF Diffusion Orca Productions SU.MA.FA. |
Distributed by | Nouvelles Éditions de Films (NEF) |
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Running time | 103 minutes |
Country | France |
Languages | French 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").