Quartier nègre

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).

Cast

Tom Novembre Joseph Dupuche Fabienne Babe Germaine Dupuche Jean-Paul Roussillon Tsé Tsé Jacques Denis Léon Monti Jérôme Anger Christian Capucine Jean-Pierre Castaldi

Ibis Hernandez Véronique

Bérangère Mastrangelo Daniel Fillion Martha Jean-Claude César Évora Díaz

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