2 Movies Directed by Med Hondo

Oh, Sun

Oh, Sun

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1973-01-04

Languages:

French, Arabic

Countries:

France, Mauritania

Runtime:

98 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (62 Reviews)

Director:

Med Hondo

Genres:

Drama

Fullplot:

A native of Mauritania is delighted when he is chosen to work in Paris. Hoping to parlay the experience into a better life for himself, he eagerly prepares for his departure from his native land. Although an educated man, he has extreme difficulty finding work and an apartment. He sees racial inequity as blacks are relegated to manual labor while less skilled whites are given preferential treatment. A dinner with a liberal white friend even reveals a continuing attitude of colonization towards third world countries. The disappointed man runs off to the woods where he hears the far off cry of the jungle drums calling him home from a cold and indifferent land.

Sarraounia

Sarraounia

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1986-11-26

Languages:

Dyula, Peul, French

Countries:

Burkina Faso, Mauritania, France

Runtime:

120 min

IMDB Ratings:

(76 Reviews)

Director:

Med Hondo

Cast:

Writer:

Med Hondo (dialogue)

Med Hondo (screenplay)

Abdoulaye Mamani (dialogue)

Abdoulaye Mamani (novel)

Abdoulaye Mamani (screenplay)

Abdoul War

Fullplot:

On January 2 1899, starting from the French Soudan, a french column under the commandment of the captains Voulet and Chanoine is send 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 heared about the exactions. Clever in war tactics and in witchcraft, she decides to resist and stop those mad men.

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