Set in nineteenth-century New Orleans, the story depicts the gens de couleur libre, or the Free People of Colour, a dazzling yet damned class caught between the world of white privilege and black oppression.
Robert Ri'chard
as Marcel Ste. Marie
Peter Gallagher
as Philippe Ferronaire
Gloria Reuben
as Cecile Ste. Marie
Jennifer Beals
as Dolly Rose
Ossie Davis
as Jean-Jacques
Ruby Dee
as Elsie Claviere
Pam Grier
as Suzette Lermontant
Jasmine Guy
as Juliet Mercier
James Earl Jones
as Older Marcel
Eartha Kitt
as Lola Dede
Ben Vereen
as Rudolphe Lermontant
Forest Whitaker
as Daguerreotypist Picard
