Set in nineteenth-century New Orleans, the story depicts the gens de couleur libre, or the Free People of Colour, a dazzling yet damned class caught between the world of white privilege and black oppression.
Cast
Robert Ri'chard
Marcel Ste. Marie
Peter Gallagher
Philippe Ferronaire
Gloria Reuben
Cecile Ste. Marie
Jennifer Beals
Dolly Rose
Ossie Davis
Jean-Jacques
Ruby Dee
Elsie Claviere
Pam Grier
Suzette Lermontant
Jasmine Guy
Juliet Mercier
James Earl Jones
Older Marcel
Eartha Kitt
Lola Dede
Ben Vereen
Rudolphe Lermontant
Forest Whitaker
Daguerreotypist Picard
Bianca Lawson
Anna Bella Monroe
Nicole Lyn
Marie, Marie Ste. Marie
Alec McClure
Vincent Dazincourt
Victoria Rowell
Josette Metoyer
Daniel Sunjata
Christophe Mercier
John Gilbert
Maglorie Dazincourt
Jenny Cooper
Aglae Dazincourt
Rachel Luttrell
Lisette
Larissa Gomes
Dolly Rose
Okiki Kendall
Voodoo Dancer
Jason Olive
Richard Lermontant
Walter Borden
Grampere Lermontant
Richard Eden
Robert Beauchamp
Clive Revill
Notary Jacquemine
Toby Proctor
Henri Delande
Karen Glave
Zazu
Phoenix Gonzales
Christina
Yvette McKoy
Slave Auction Mother
George Seremba
Felix
Uma Venkataramaiah
Shireen
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