Med Hondo
Sarraounia
Edition 1987
120'
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1986
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War, Drama
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Dialogue:
French
Director:
Med Hondo
Composer:
Pierre Akendengue, Abdoulaye Cissé
With:
Aï Keïta, Jean-Roger Milo, Féodor Atkine, Didier Sauvegrain, Roger Mirmont
On January 2 1899, starting from the French Soudan, a french column under the commandment of the captains Voulet and Chanoine is send against the black Sultan Rabah in what is now the Cameroun. Those captains and their african mercenary troops destroy and kill everything they find on their path. The French autority try to stop them sending orders and a second troop but the captains even kill the emissaries who are reaching them. Sarraounia, queen of the Aznas, have heared about the exactions. Clever in war tactics and in witchcraft, she decides to resist and stop those mad men.
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Director
Med Hondo
Composer
Pierre Akendengue, Abdoulaye Cissé
With
Aï Keïta, Jean-Roger Milo, Féodor Atkine, Didier Sauvegrain, Roger Mirmont
Scenario
Carole Marquand
Director of Photography
Guy Famechon
Editor
Marie-Therese Boiché
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Dialogue
French
Countries of production
Burkina Faso, France
Year
1986