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Sarraounia (1986)

Sarraounia (1986)

Drama History War
Release Date: 1986, July 1
Directors: Med Hondo
Countries: Burkina Faso, France, Mauritania
Production: Direction de la Cinematographie Nationale, Les Films Soleil O, Ministère de la culture, Ministère de l'information et de la culture du Burkina
Cast: Féodor Atkine, Jean-Pierre Castaldi, Didier Sauvegrain, Luc-Antoine Diquéro, Roger Miremont, Jean-Roger Milo, Aï Keïta, Tidjani Ouedraogo

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

colonialism