Madame Desbassayns: Myth and Reality of an Icon of Slavery

Madame Desbassayns: Myth and Reality of an Icon of Slavery (2015)

The horrible story of a mythical slave owner!

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...

  • Release Date: 2015-01-01
  • Runtime: 1h 42min
  • Director: William Cally

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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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