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"Born into one world, destined for another."
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.
33 Cast Members
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
Alec McClure
Vincent Dazincourt
Victoria Rowell
Josette Metoyer
Daniel Sunjata
Christophe Mercier
John Gilbert
Maglorie Dazincourt
Nicole Lyn
Marie Ste. Marie
Jenny Cooper
Aglae Dazincourt
