Sarraounia (1986)
2h
Running Time
July 1, 1986Release Date
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.
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Cast & Crew.
Aï Keïta
Sarraounia
Jean-Roger Milo
Capitaine Voulet
Féodor Atkine
Chanoine
Didier Sauvegrain
Doctor Henric
Roger Miremont
Lieutenant Joalland
Luc-Antoine Diquéro
Lt. Pallier
Jean-Pierre Castaldi
Sergeant Boutel
Wladimir Ivanovsky
Actor
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Wiki.
Sarraounia is a 1986 historical drama film written and directed by Med Hondo. It is based on a novel of the same name by Nigerien author Abdoulaye Mamani, who co-wrote the screenplay. The novel and film concern the real-life Battle of Lougou between Azna (remnant animist-Hausa people) queen Sarraounia and the advancing French Colonial Forces of the Voulet-Chanoine Mission in 1899. Sarraounia was one of the few African tribal leaders that resisted the advances of French expansionists Paul Voulet and Julien Chanoine. The film won the first prize at the Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO) and was critically well received.