Release Date

01 Jan, 1990

Runtime

01:37: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

In 1937, the young French engineer Jo Dupuche landed a job in Ecuador, with the promise of a better life. While he stops on a Caribbean island, he discovers that the mine where he was hired has gone bankrupt and finds himself penniless. Trapped with his wife in the tropics, the couple must cope. While his wife finds work thanks to white settlers, Jo is housed in a ghetto where he forms a romantic relationship with a young prostitute. Shot on 35mm in Cuba at the end of the 1980s with all the constraints inherent to the country, this TV film paints an uncompromising picture of colonialism in line with the eponymous novel by Simenon (1934).

Original Title

Quartier nègre

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Actors

Tom Novembre

Fabienne Babe

Jean-Paul Roussillon

Jacques Denis

Jérôme Anger

Capucine

Jean-Pierre Castaldi

Ibis Hernandez

Bérangère Mastrangelo

Daniel Fillion

Martha Jean-Claude

César Évora

Daniel Jordan

Alejandro Lugo

Luis Alberto Ramírez

Thais Valdés

Crew

Pierre Koralnik

Georges Simenon