Sarraounia
Release Date: 1986-07-01
Rating : 6.2/10
Duration : 120 minutes
Genres : War, Drama, History
Director : Med Hondo
Writer : Amina Abdoulaye Mamani, Abdoul War, Med Hondo
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.
Cast
Aï Keïta
Jean-Roger Milo
Féodor Atkine
Didier Sauvegrain
Roger Miremont
Luc-Antoine Diquéro