Sarraounia

July. 01,1986      
Rating:
7.1
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

Jean-Roger Milo as  Capitaine Voulet
Féodor Atkine as  Chanoine
Didier Sauvegrain as  Doctor Henric
Roger Miremont as  Lieutenant Joalland
Luc-Antoine Diquéro as  Lieutenant Pallier
Jean-Pierre Castaldi as  Sergeant Boutel

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