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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Aï Keïta
Sarraounia
Jean-Roger Milo
Capitaine Voulet
Féodor Atkine
Chanoine
Didier Sauvegrain
Doctor Henric
Roger Miremont
Lieutenant Joalland
Luc-Antoine Diquéro
Lieutenant Pallier
Jean-Pierre Castaldi
Sergeant Boutel
Wladimir Ivanovsky
Tidjani Ouedraogo
Coulibaly
Jacques Penot
Didier Agostini
Jean Edmond
Philippe Bellay
Tagara Yagoura Traore
Aboubagar Traoré
Med Hondo
Director
Med Hondo
Screenplay
Amina Abdoulaye Mamani
Screenplay
Abdoul War
Screenplay
Amina Abdoulaye Mamani
Novel
Med Hondo
Producer
Guy Famechon
Director of Photography
Abdoulaye Cissé
Original Music Composer
Pierre Akendengué
Original Music Composer
Issouf Compaore
Original Music Composer
Marie-Thérèse Boiché
Editor
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