Overview

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.

Details

Cast

Robert Ri'chard

Peter Gallagher

Gloria Reuben

Jennifer Beals

Ossie Davis

Ruby Dee

Pam Grier

Jasmine Guy

James Earl Jones

Eartha Kitt