Sarraounia (1986)

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Country: Burkina Faso, France, Mauritania
Genres: Drama, History, War
Release: 1986-11-26
Director: Med Hondo
Writers: Med Hondo , Abdoulaye Mamani , Abdoul War
Language: Dyula | Peul | French
Stars: Aï Keïta , Jean-Roger Milo , Féodor Atkine , Didier Sauvegrain , Roger Miremont , Luc-Antoine Diquéro , Jean-Pierre Castaldi , Wladimir Ivanovsky , Tidjani Ouedraogo , Jacques Penot
Runtime: 120 min
Awards: 1 win
AKA: Sarraounia - krigerdronningen (Norway) , Der Kampf der schwarzen Königin , Sarraounia (Burkina Faso) , Sarraounia (United Kingdom) , Саррауния (Russian Federation) , Sarraounia (Spain) , Sarraounia
Plot: 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.
IMDB:tt0091892