Released:
1986-07-01

Overview:
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.

Director:
Med Hondo

Runtime:
2h 0min

Genre:
War, Drama, History

• Cast:
• 
  Aï Keïta
  as
  Sarraounia
• 
  Jean-Roger Milo
  as
  Capitaine Voulet
• 
  Féodor Atkine
  as
  Chanoine
• 
  Didier Sauvegrain
  as
  Doctor Henric
• 
  Roger Miremont
  as
  Lieutenant Joalland