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Sarraounia (1986)
Directed by Med Hondo
War, Drama, History · 2h 02m
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
A
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
W
Wladimir Ivanovsky
T
Tidjani Ouedraogo
Coulibaly
Jacques Penot
D
Didier Agostini
J
Jean Edmond
Crew
- Director
- Med Hondo
- Screenplay
- Amina Abdoulaye Mamani, Abdoul War, Med Hondo
- Novel
- Amina Abdoulaye Mamani
- Director of Photography
- Guy Famechon
- Original Music Composer
- Pierre Akendengué, Abdoulaye Cissé, Issouf Compaore
- Editor
- Marie-Thérèse Boiché
- Producer
- Med Hondo
Details
- Release date
- 1986-07-01
- Runtime
- 2h 02m
- Genres
- War, Drama, History
- Original language
- FR
- Spoken languages
- French
- 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