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1983 · 20382 — 1983. Caribbean Film About Slavery Sugar Cane Alley Original Vintage Poster. 1983. Measures 27" x 40". Poster image features a young Martinican man on a fading-red backdrop. A group of people dancing are at the top leading a sugar cane bundle cart being pulled by a horse. Also featured are the films title and original French title "Rue Cases Negres". Production credits an "Orion Pictures" logo and the PG rating are all listed below as well. The film depicts the life of a young black boy in the Martinique in the '30s and gives an impressionist view of life in the French colony and of the uneasy coexistence between the two worlds of the descendants of slaves kept in a de facto economic slavery and of the békés whites. It was written and directed by Euzhan Palcy a French-Martinican woman whose films are known to explore themes of race gender and politics with an emphasis on the perpetuated effects of colonialism. She is the first black director to win a César Award and the Venice Film Festival's Silver Lion both for Sugar Cane Alley. Rolled and in very good condition. unknown