West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty (French: West Indies ou les Nègres marrons de la liberté) is a 1979 Algerian-Mauritanian French-language drama film directed by Med Hondo.^[1] The plot of the film was adapted from a novel titled Les Negriers (The Slavers), written by Daniel Boukman. The film is highly regarded as a landmark film in the history of African cinema as it was made with a lavish budget of US$1.35 million, making it as one of the biggest budgeted African films ever to be made.^[2] Against the backdrop of the colonial West Indies, which was under French imperialism,^[3][4] the drama was set on a slave ship.^[5] The film had its theatrical release in 1979.

Cast

• Cyril Aventurin as The father
• Fernand Berset as The hotel manager
• Roland Bertin as The death
• Gérard Bloncourt as Monsieur De la Pierre
• Toto Bissainthe as Sister Marie Joseph de Cluny
• Philippe Clévenot as The monk
• Hélène Vincent as The social worker