The Feast of All Saints
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Sean O'hara
Jenny Levine
Walter Borden
Fawn Logan Young
Butch Miller
Ossie Davis
Film Details
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Synopsis
Chronicles the lives of four "free people of color," descendants of African slaves and their French and Spanish owners who lived in Louisiana before the Civil War. The story focuses on Marcel Ste, Marie, his sister Marie Ste. Marie, and their close friends Anna Bella Monroe and Richard Lermontant as they confront the transition from adolescence into their uncertain social positions as adults in 1840's New Orleans.
Sixteen-year-old Marcel is the copper-skinned, blue-eyed son of plantation owner Philippe Ferronaire and Philippe's black mistress, Cecile. Strikingly handsome, and raised in privilege, Marcel strives to live up to his father's expectations. He is also blissfully ignorant of a future that Cecile fears is doomed -- for only in Europe can a young man of mixed heritage be assured the education and the freedom he deserves. Philippe promises Marcel a prized education in Paris, and Marcel is determined to achieve it.
When a famous novelist and free man of color, Christophe Mercier, returns to New Orleans to open a school, Marcel jumps at the chance to attend and be educated by his idol. Meanwhile, Marie is being sought after by an affluent and highly regarded friend of Marcel's. Her happiness is at stake because of others' darker plans for her; like her mother before her, to enter into "placage," the practice of white landowners keeping "colored" women. Marcel, through his education with Christophe, is making his own pilgrimage to adulthood when it is decided that he should master a trade to support himself instead of completing his studies. Marcel revolts and seeks the truth about who he is and who he is supposed to become.
Cast
Sean O'hara
Jenny Levine
Walter Borden
Fawn Logan Young
Butch Miller
Ossie Davis
Rachel Luttrell
Toby Proctor
Forest Whitaker
Ron Tough
Corwin Hall
Jasmine Guy
Clive Revill
Peter Gallagher
Serena Lea
Ben Vereen
Gloria Reuben
George Seremba
Jennifer Beals
Rothaford Gray
Yvette Mckoy
Eartha Kitt
Bianca Lawson
Nicole Lyn
Victoria Rowell
Warren Belle
Warren Scott
Hume Baugh
Lucinda Davis
Brian Paul
John Gilbert
Thom Bell
Pam Grier
James Earl Jones
Quancetia Hamilton
Bruce Mcfee
Gail Williams
Richard Eden
Karen Glave
Phoenix Gonzales
Jason Olive
Alec Mcclure
Adrian Griffin
Ruby Dee
Isys Mckoy
Josh Peace
Patrick Stevenson
Graham Harley
Robert Ri'chard
Daniel Sunjata
Crew
Michael Brownstone
Victoria Burrows
Graham Caswell
Tamara Deverell
Catherine Doherty
Jeannie Ione Flynn
Rocco Gismondi
Stephanie Gorin
Nigel Hutchins
Patricia Keighran
Pierre Magny
Peter Mcintosh
Bill Mcmillan
Neil Morfitt
Andrew Nicholson
Regan Noble
Richard Nord
Edward J Pei
Diane Pitblado
Van Broughton Ramsey
Anne Rice
Anne Rice
Michael Rintoul
Bart Wenrich
Forest Whitaker
John Wilder
John Wilder
Ken Woroner
Craig Wright
Film Details
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Miscellaneous Notes
Aired in United States November 11, 2001
Aired in United States November 12, 2001
Began shooting August 8, 2000.
Completed shooting October 20, 2000.
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