Once on This Island (1970)

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. hotel, dance, island, based on novel or book, prayer, tree, peasant, rain, story teller, earth, knife, based on play or musical, god, spirit, death, caribbean sea, flood, human heart, gate, caribbean, water, grande homme, peasant girl, gates