Toussaint Louverture (film)
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Toussaint Louverture | |
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Directed by | |
Written by | Philippe Niang |
Starring | Jimmy Jean-Louis Aïssa Maïga Sonia Rolland |
Production company | |
Distributed by | France 2 |
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Country | France |
Language | French |
Toussaint Louverture is a 2012 French film written and directed by . It stars Jimmy Jean-Louis, Aïssa Maïga and Sonia Rolland and is based on the life of Toussaint Louverture.
The film premiered at the 2012 .[1] It won the Best Diaspora Feature award at the 8th Africa Movie Academy Awards.[2][3]
Cast[]
- Jimmy Jean-Louis as Toussaint Louverture
- Aïssa Maïga as Suzanne
- Arthur Jugnot as Pasquier
- Pierre Cassignard as général de division Étienne Maynaud de Bizefranc de Laveaux
- as Léger-Félicité Sonthonax
- Magloire Delcros-Varaud as Mars Plaisir
- Féodor Atkine as général de division Marie-François Auguste de Caffarelli du Falga
- as Georges Biassou
- as Infant
- as Hyacinthe Moïse
- as Henri Christophe
- Hubert Koundé as Jean-Jacques Dessalines
- as Bayon
- Sonia Rolland as Marie-Eugénie Sonthonax
- Stany Coppet as Brigadier general André Rigaud
- as Catherine Delambre
- as Mulatto officer
- as Placide
- as général de division Charles Leclerc
- Xavier Lemaître as Marquis d'Hermona
- Thomas Langmann as Napoleon
- Valérie Mairesse as Mother Coulinge
- as Vertueuse
References[]
- ^ http://web.ac-toulouse.fr/automne_modules_files/pnews/public/r18254_8_grilles_projections_fest.luchon_2012-1.pdf
- ^ "Happy as a Slave: The Toussaint Louverture miniseries". h-france.net. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
- ^ "Pan African Film Festival: Toussaint Louverture". paff.org. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
External links[]
Categories:
- 2012 films
- French-language films
- French films
- Drama films based on actual events
- France Télévisions television dramas
- Senegalese films
- Best Diaspora Feature Africa Movie Academy Award winners
- Haitian films
- 2010s French-language films
- Senegalese drama films
- Haitian historical drama films
- French historical drama films
- Films set in the 18th century
- Haitian Revolution films
- Cultural depictions of Toussaint Louverture
- Depictions of Napoleon on film
- 2010s French film stubs