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The Man by the Shore

L'Homme sur les quais

1993

Seen through the eyes of a young girl whose family is torn apart, this drama evokes the terror of Haiti under the Duvalier dictatorship in the early 1960s. Raoul Peck's haunting childhood memory of a reign of fear.

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Part of 5 Essential Films from Haiti

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