本片是一部法国剧情片，上映于1979-09-19，由梅德·翁多导演，由Cyril Aventurin/费尔南·贝尔塞/罗兰·伯汀主演。
剧情简介：It’s winter in France, the light is dull, the camera pans over a snowy wasteland and enters a massive construction of steel and glass that is open at the sides, stopping in front of the reproduction of a wooden ship. The structure that juts out over the upper deck is inscribed with the words ‘Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité’.
Med Hondo uses this tracking shot to establish the setting of his feature film West Indies ou les nègres marrons de la liberté (1979), while opening up a much larger space to the imagination at the same time. The ship turns out to be a most versatile stage for a grotesque narrative of colonialism, slavery and the struggle for independence in the French West Indies. Med Hondo explores his many themes in this limited space, whether it be the Middle Passage, marronage, abolition or the history of labour migration to France. The film marries an aesthetics of thrift with the flamboyance of a musical; different time periods glide into one other as elegantly as the geographical points of reference; and only occasionally do the actors’ visible exhalations, an alienation effect created by the cold, remind us that West Indies was not shot on Martinique.
外文名：West Indies
别名：West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty
类型：剧情
地区：法国 / 毛里塔尼亚 / 阿尔及利亚
导演：梅德·翁多
编剧：Daniel Boukman / 梅德·翁多
演员：Cyril Aventurin / 费尔南·贝尔塞 / 罗兰·伯汀 / Gérard Bloncourt / Toto Bissainthe / 菲利普·克利夫诺
