*SPECIAL ANNIVERSARY EDITION* Belizaire the Cajun is a 1986 film starring Armand Assante. Set in the Cajun Country of Louisiana's Vermillion Parish, it chronicles the story of Belizaire Breaux, a village healer (traiteur) in 1859, who becomes entangled in a violent conflict between Cajuns and the new Anglophone arrivals to Southwest Louisiana.
"On the antebellum Louisiana frontier, a wily herb doctor must save his cousin's life, defeat murderous vigilantes, win a woman's heart, rescue an orphan's inheritance -- and, of course, escape the gallows."
DVD, 103 minutes