in French - beta num pal 4/3 / dvd (dvd5-pal) - ©photography: jba production

For a long time, sugar cane was the island's principal resource, it was at the heart of the countryside. Today, everything has shifted. The centre has become peripheral. The beautiful, the useful is no longer the

plantation, the fields of cane but the beach or the mountain summits which at tract increasing numbers of tourists. But once again, the inhabitants look on as spectators to the transformation of their island.

director RADHA JAGANATHEN - author JEAN LOïC PORTON - producer JACQUES BIDOU - productions JBA PRODUCTION, CNC, LA SEPT ARTE, INA, MINISTèRE DE LA CULTURE, MISSION DU PATRIMOINE ETHNOLOGIQUE - editing REMI HIERNAUX - image MAURICE PERRIMOND - sound MYRIAM RENE - music JEAN MALLET - year of production 1994
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