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Mama Colonel (2017)
Directed by Dieudo Hamadi
Documentary · 1h 12m
Colonel Honorine Munyole is a robust forty-four-year-old widow and mother of seven young children – four of her own, three adopted. She wields her uniform, beret and black handbag like a protective shield, which her daily work desperately requires. More or less on her own, she runs a small police unit dedicated to protecting women who’ve been raped and children who’ve suffered abuse in the war-plagued regions of the Congo. At the start of Maman Colonelle, she’s transferred from Bukavu to Kisangani, arriving only to discover her future home and office in a desolate state. While she deals with such practical obstacles with suitable feistiness, the traumas and social deformities of the people around her have nightmarish dimensions: the envy surrounding those with state-recognised ‘victim’ status, hope for help from the ‘whites’, depression, helplessness.
Cast
Crew
- Director
- Dieudo Hamadi
- Writer
- Dieudo Hamadi
- Editor
- Anne Renardet
- Producer
- Christian Lelong, Kiripi Katembo Siku
Details
- Original title
- Maman Colonelle
- Release date
- 2017-02-13
- Runtime
- 1h 12m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- FR
- Spoken languages
- Lingala, Swahili, French
- Countries
- Congo, France