Sugar Cane Alley
Sugar Cane Alley ★★★ Rue Cases Negres 1983 (PG)
After the loss of his parents, an 11-year-old orphan boy goes to work with his grandmother on a sugar plantation. She realizes that her young ward's only hope is an education. Set in Martinique in the 1930s among black workers. Poignant and memorable. French with subtitles. 106m/C VHS, DVD . FR Garry Cadenat, Darling Legitimus, Douta Seck; D: Euzhan Palcy; W: Euzhan Palcy; C: Dominique Chapuis.
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