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.
Marcel Ste. Marie
Robert Ri'chard
Philippe Ferronaire
Peter Gallagher
Cecile Ste. Marie
Gloria Reuben
Dolly Rose
Jennifer Beals
Jean-Jacques
Ossie Davis
Elsie Claviere
Ruby Dee
Suzette Lermontant
Pam Grier
Juliet Mercier
Jasmine Guy
Older Marcel
James Earl Jones
Lola Dede
Eartha Kitt
Rudolphe Lermontant
Ben Vereen
Daguerreotypist Picard
Forest Whitaker
Anna Bella Monroe
Bianca Lawson
Marie
Nicole Lyn
Vincent Dazincourt
Alec McClure
Josette Metoyer
Victoria Rowell
Christophe Mercier
Daniel Sunjata
Maglorie Dazincourt
John Gilbert
Marie Ste. Marie
Nicole Lyn
Aglae Dazincourt
Jenny Cooper
Lisette
Rachel Luttrell
Dolly Rose
Larissa Gomes
Voodoo Dancer
Okiki Kendall
Richard Lermontant
Jason Olive
Grampere Lermontant
Walter Borden
Robert Beauchamp
Richard Eden
Notary Jacquemine
Clive Revill
Henri Delande
Toby Proctor
Zazu
Karen Glave
Christina
Phoenix Gonzales
Slave Auction Mother
Yvette McKoy
Felix
George Seremba
Shireen
Uma Venkataramaiah