Sarraounia

2h

War Drama History

6.2

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.

Cast

Jean-Roger Milo

Capitaine Voulet

Didier Sauvegrain

Lieutenant Joalland

Luc-Antoine Diquéro

Lieutenant Pallier

Jean-Pierre Castaldi

Sergeant Boutel

Wladimir Ivanovsky

Tidjani Ouedraogo

Didier Agostini

Philippe Bellay

Tagara Yagoura Traore

Aboubagar Traoré

Abdoulaye Cissé

Jean-François Ouedraogo

Florence Bewende

Djibril Sidibé

Rajoun Tapsirou

Temeddit Ag Hoye

Ben Idriss Traoré

Mohamed Ag Bloukia

Mohamed Ag Mohamed

Abdoulaye Cire Ba

Boubacar Amadou Cissé

Issouf Compaore

Daouda Bakoroba Diabate

Djibilirou Dicko

Rosalie Kantiebo

Nafissatou Kone

Hassane Kassi Kouyate

Gninasse Lancina

Aboueba Mantoro

Mamounata Ouattara

Fatou Ouedraogo

Moussa Sawadogo

Adama Zoungrana

Crew

Director, Screenplay, Producer

Amina Abdoulaye Mamani

Screenplay, Novel

Marie-Thérèse Boiché

Director of Photography

Jacques d'Ovidio

Production Designer

Jean-Paul Loublier

Vartan Karakeusian

Jean-Louis Trinquier

Special Effects Supervisor

Pierre Akendengué

Original Music Composer

Abdoulaye Cissé

Original Music Composer

Issouf Compaore

Original Music Composer

Carole Marquand

Script Supervisor