Sarraounia (1986) — drama, history, war film. Directed by Med Hondo. Starring Aï Keïta, Jean-Roger Milo, Féodor Atkine, Didier Sauvegrain. This page maps 2 characters and 3 relationships between them as an interactive character network.
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A sovereign queen unites spiritual and military forces to defend her people against brutal French colonial expansion.
Drama, History, War · 6.7/10 · 122 min · 1986
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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