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Simon Moutaïrou Pushes Boundaries With Studiocanal-Backed French Slavery Drama ‘No Chains, No Masters’ + First Int’l Deals
Senegalese actor Ibrahima Mbaye and newcomer Anna Diakhere Thiandoum co-star as father and daughter enslaved on a plantation who make bid for freedom.
Etched on his memory from this time are the trips to its so-called slave coast and port city of Ouidah, through which more than one million Africans passed in the 18th and early 19th centuries ahead of being transported overseas for a life of slavery. Set in Mauritius in the early 19th century, when the Indian Ocean Island was under French rule, No Chains, No Masters lays bare the brutal treatment of imported African slaves working on its sugar plantations, but also offers a universal tale of resistance in the face of oppression. Senegalese actor Ibrahima Mbaye ( Atlantics, Wara) and newcomer Anna Diakhere Thiandoum co-star as Massamba and Mati, a father and daughter enslaved on a plantation, who rebel against its regime of violence and make a perilous bid for freedom.
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