Madame Desbassayns: Myth and Reality of an Icon of Slavery (2015)
Documentary · History · Drama
Overview
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...
Cast
- Jacques Deshayes as Narrator (voice)
- Stéphane Thomas as Madame Desbassayns
- David Erudel as Henri Paulin Panon Desbassayns
- Ophélie Galant as Young Madame Debassayns
- Kristof Langromme as Slave Neptune
- Eric Lauret as Julien Gonneau Montbrun (father)
- Muriel Benard as Marie-Thérèse L. des Sablons (mother)
- Francis Convert as Abbé Macquet
- Mickaël Fontaine as Cavalier Desbassayns
- Fabrice Saubert as Housing Manager