Mama Colonel
- Documentary
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.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- February 13, 2017
- Original language
- French
- Spoken languages
- Lingala, Swahili, French
- Countries
- Congo, France
- Cast
- Honorine Munyole
- Director
- Dieudo Hamadi
- Writer
- Dieudo Hamadi
- Producer
- Christian Lelong,Kiripi Katembo Siku
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt7133098