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Haiti

Filmmaker · Haiti

Rassoul Labuchin

Joseph Yves Médard, known as Rassoul Labuchin, was born on 30 March 1938 in Pétion-Ville. A poet in Creole, he joined the Parti d'entente populaire alongside Jacques Stephen Alexis. Arrested and tortured several times under the Duvaliers, he was later sent into exile in France. He directed the Théâtre national in 1991, then from 1996 to 2001, was mayor of Port-au-Prince from 2002 to 2004 and wrote the libretto of an opera in Creole. He settled in Montreal in 2010.

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