Sarraounia

Sarraounia

1986 · 122 min · ★ 6.7 · War, Drama, History

On 2 January 1899, starting from the French Sudan, a French column under the command of the captains Voulet and Chanoine is sent against the black Sultan Rabah in what is now the Cameroon. Those captains and their African mercenary troops destroy and kill everything they find on their path. The French authorities try to stop them sending orders and a second troop but the captains kill the emissaries who reach them. Sarraounia, queen of the Aznas, have heard about the exactions. Clever in war tactics and in witchcraft, she decides to resist and stop those mad men.

Directed by Med Hondo · Written by Amina Abdoulaye Mamani

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Aï Keïta Sarraounia
Jean-Roger Milo Capitaine Voulet
Féodor Atkine Chanoine
Didier Sauvegrain Doctor Henric
Roger Miremont Lieutenant Joalland
Luc-Antoine Diquéro Lieutenant Pallier
Jean-Pierre Castaldi Sergeant Boutel
Wladimir Ivanovsky
Tidjani Ouedraogo Coulibaly
Jacques Penot
Didier Agostini
Jean Edmond

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