Madame Desbassayns: Myth and Reality of an Icon of Slavery

The horrible story of a mythical slave owner!

  • Movie
  • 2015
  • 1h 42m
  • Documentary
  • History
  • Drama

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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Director
William Cally
Starring
Jacques Deshayes, Stéphane Thomas, David Erudel, Ophélie Galant

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

    Francis Convert

    Abbé Macquet

  • Mickaël Fontaine

    Cavalier Desbassayns

  • Fabrice Saubert

    Housing Manager

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