Sarraounia
Burkina Faso • 1986
Director
Synopsis
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.
Synopsis
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.
Credits
Crew
DirectorMed Hondo
CinematographerGuy Famechon
ComposerPierre Akendengué, Abdoulaye Cissé, Issouf Compaore
EditorMarie-Thérèse Boiché
ProducerMed Hondo
Cast
Aï Keïtaas Sarraounia
Jean-Roger Miloas Capitaine Voulet