Toussaint
New York African Film Festival 2013
April 3 - 9, 2013
Actor Jimmy Jean Louis in person April 7!
After seeing his slave father judged unproductive and thrown into the harbor at the age of eight, Toussaint Louverture grows up to lead the slave revolt that results in the independence of Haiti.
Actor Jimmy Jean Louis in person April 7!
At the age of eight, Toussaint Louverture is marked forever when he sees his father, an old slave, judged unproductive and thrown into the harbor. As an adult and a free man, Louverture leads the slave revolt that results in the independence of Haiti.
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