Oh, Sun
Soleil O (original)
The film Soleil Ô, shot over four years with a very low budget, tells the story of a black immigrant who makes his way to Paris in search of “his Gaul ancestors”. This manifesto denounces a new form of slavery: The immigrants desperately seek work, a place to live, but find themselves face to face with indifference, rejection, humiliation…until the final call for uprising. “Soleil Ô” is the title of a West Indian song that tells of the pain of the black people from Dahomey (now Benin) who were taken to the Caribbean as slaves.
Starring Robert Liensol, Théo Légitimus, Ambroise Mbia, Gabriel Glissant, Akonio Dolo, Greg Germain, Jean-Baptiste Tiémélé, Mabousso Lo, Georges Hilarion, Alfred Panou
Watch "Oh, Sun" on Criterion Channel released in 1967. It's a drama movie, and has a rating of 7.4 out of 10 from Imdb which is usually fine for this kind of movie.
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