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Once on This Island

3h 9mMovieDramaFantasyRomance

Adaptation of the Broadway musical. The story is set in the French Antilles in the Caribbean Sea and tells of a peasant girl who falls in love with an aristocrat. Against this backdrop, social class differences play out while the island gods wager a bet of what is stronger, love or death.

DirectorWanuri Kahiu
WriterJocelyn Bioh
ProducerMarc Platt

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Cast · Directed by Wanuri Kahiu

JGJoan Gardner
Joan Gardner
Gramda

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