Rue Cases Nègres (1983)

(Sugar Cane Alley)

Country: FR
Technical: col 106m
Director: Euzhan Palcy
Cast: Garry Cadenat, Darling Legitimus

Synopsis:

1930s Martinique, and a little boy breaks out of the cane fields to become a brilliant pupil and scholar to a boarding school, thanks to the tenacity of his adoptive mother.

Review:

Moving and upliftingly cheerful picture of French colonial life, with excellent child performers.