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Madame Desbassayns: Myth and Reality of an Icon of Slavery

Madame Desbassayns: Myth and Reality of an Icon of Slavery

The horrible story of a mythical slave owner!

2015•1h 42m
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...

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Production

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

Language

FR

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Jacques Deshayes

Narrator (voice)

Stéphane Thomas

Madame Desbassayns

David Erudel

Henri Paulin Panon Desbassayns

Ophélie Galant

Young Madame Debassayns

Kristof Langromme

Slave Neptune

Eric Lauret

Julien Gonneau Montbrun (father)

Muriel Benard

Marie-Thérèse L. des Sablons (mother)

Francis Convert

Abbé Macquet

Mickaël Fontaine

Cavalier Desbassayns

Fabrice Saubert

Housing Manager

Teddy Lebon

Charles Desbassayns

Fabrice Payet

Joseph Desbassayns

Basile Chevalier

"Montbrun" Desbassayns

Marcelino Rivière

Julien Augustin Desbassayns

Benjamin Palomé

Chemist Wetzell

Evelyne Robert

Servant Marie-Barbe

Arielle Belus

Slave Honorine

Marie-Dolaine Guichard

Nénène Madeline

Dina Dianore

Young Nénène Madeline

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