Sarraounia
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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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Edited by Marie Therese BoicheShot by Guy FamechonScored by Pierre AkendengueDesigned by Jacques D Ovidio
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19 unique people credited
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Ai Keita
as Sarraounia
Jean Roger Milo
as Capitaine Voulet
Feodor Atkine
as Captain Chanoine
Didier Sauvegrain
as Doctor Henric
Roger Miremont
as Lieutenant Joalland
Luc Antoine Diquero
as Lt. Pallier
Jean Pierre Castaldi
as Sergeant Boutel
Wladimir Ivanovsky
as Sergeant-Major Laury
Tidjani Ouedraogo
as Coulibaly
Jacques Penot
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