Moolaadé (2004)

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
	Fatoumata Coulibaly	...	Collé Gallo Ardo Sy
	Maimouna Hélène Diarra	...	Hadjatou
	Salimata Traoré	...	Amasatou
	Dominique Zeïda	...	Mercenaire
	Mah Compaoré	...	Doyenne des Exciseuses
	Aminata Dao	...	Alima Bâ
	Rasmane Ouedraogo	...	Ciré Bathily
	Ousmane Konaté	...	Amath Bathily
	Bakaramoto Sanogo	...	Abdou
	Modibo Sangaré	...	Balla Bathily
	Joseph Traoré	...	Dugutigi
	Théophile Sowié	...	Ibrahima (as Moussa Théophile Sowié)
	Balla Habib Dembélé	...	Sacristain (as Habib Dembélé)
	Gustave Sorgho	...	Bakary
	Cheick Oumar Maiga	...	Kémo Tiékura

Storyline

In an African village this is the day when six 4-9-year-old girls are to be circumcised. All children know that the operation is horrible torture and sometimes lethal, and all adults know that some circumcised women can only give birth by Caesarean section. Two of the girls have drowned themselves in the well to escape the operation. The four other girls seek "magical protection" (moolaadé) by a woman (Colle) who seven years before refused to have her daughter circumcised. Moolaadé is indicated by a coloured rope. But no one would dare step over and fetch the children. Moolaadé can only be revoked by Colle herself. Her husband's relatives persuade him to whip her in public into revoking. Opposite groups of women shout to her to revoke or to be steadfast, but no woman interferes. When Colle is at the wedge of fainting, the merchant takes action and stops the maltreatment. Therefore he is hunted out of the village and, when out of sight, murdered. Written by Max Scharnberg, Stockholm, Sweden  

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