Sarraounia

Sarraounia — Plot

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.

• Release date
• July 1, 1986
• Runtime
• 122 min
• Genres
• War, Drama, History
• Director
• Med Hondo

Sarraounia — 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