Mauritania

Sarraouania

Sarraouania

Country:Mauritania

Director:Med Hondo

Year: 
1986

Summary:

Med Hondo’s most doubled effort is based in history: On January 2 1899, starting from the French Sudan, a French column under the commandment of the captains Voulet and Chanoine is sent 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 heard about the executions.