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La Fievre Jaune (Yellow Fever)	Watch an Excerpt
	“Yellow Fever is a milestone in the Louisiana French Renaissance.” - Barry Ancelet
	During an 1897 epidemic, soldiers guard a quarantined Cajun village, but fisherman Alcide Boudreaux knows the back bayous well enough to evade them. Returning to his family, he himself falls sick with the fever. So begins a test of wits as his wife, his mother, and his children must all do their part to hide his presence from quarantine officials, leading up to an explosive confrontation. To the authorities, interning fever victims means stopping the spread of the epidemic. To the Boudreaux family, it means certain death for Alcide. An award-winning drama. Black and white. In Cajun French with English subtitles.

Huit Piastres Et Demie!
($8.50 a Barrel!)

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“Moviegoers were caught from the
first scene... Scenes on the bayou
are beautiful and dramatic.”
- New Orleans Times-Picayune

Two men, one 82, the other 93, recount what occurred in the fishing village of Golden Meadow, Louisiana, during two weeks of the summer of 1938. As leaders of opposing sides of “the Shrimp War,” each tells the truth of what happened — his truth — and thus each inevitably contradicts the other. Choosing sides once again, their neighbors and relatives don period costumes, drive vintage cars, and ride ‘30s era boats to recreate two distinctly different versions of the battles and intrigue, as the audience goes along on the fascinating transition of regional history into local myth. An award-winning film. In Cajun French with English subtitles.

Whether you call them Gumbo Westerns, Cajuns Movies, or les shows en francais, Côte Blanche Productions’ La Fièvre Jaune and Huit Piastres Et Demie! broke house records when, in the early 1980s, they became the first-ever Cajun French language movies to hit the big screen.

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