Film
Mama Colonel
2017 · 1h 12m · Documentary
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Overview
Colonel Honorine Munyole is a robust forty-four-year-old widow and mother of seven young children – four of her own, three adopted. She wields her uniform, beret and black handbag like a protective shield, which her daily work desperately requires. More or less on her own, she runs a small police unit dedicated to protecting women who’ve been raped and children who’ve suffered abuse in the war-plagued regions of the Congo. At the start of Maman Colonelle, she’s transferred from Bukavu to Kisangani, arriving only to discover her future home and office in a desolate state. While she deals with such practical obstacles with suitable feistiness, the traumas and social deformities of the people around her have nightmarish dimensions: the envy surrounding those with state-recognised ‘victim’ status, hope for help from the ‘whites’, depression, helplessness.
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Cast
Crew
- Dieudo HamadiDirector · Writer
- Christian LelongProducer
- Kiripi Katembo SikuProducer
- Anne RenardetEditor
Media
Details
- Release date
- February 13, 2017
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- French
- Runtime
- 1h 12m
- Genres
- Documentary
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