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Sarraounia

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Original title

Sarraounia

Year

1986

Running time

120 min.

Country

Burkina Faso

Director

Med Hondo

Screenwriter

Med Hondo, Abdoulaye Mamani, Abdoul War. Novel: Abdoulaye Mamani

Cast

Music

Pierre Akendengue

Cinematography

Guy Famechon

Producer

Co-production Burkina Faso-Mauritania-France;

Les Films Soleil O

Genre

Drama. War | Historical. Africa

Synopsis

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.

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Sarraounia

1986

Med Hondo