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Moolaade

Moolaade

New Yorker (2005)
DVD
5021866303307
Drama | Foreign
USA | English | Color | 02:04

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.


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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
Habib Dembele Sacristain
Jean-Gustave Sorgho Dak Bakary
Cheick Oumar Maiga Kémo Tiékura
Sory Ibrahima Koïta Kémo Ansumana
Aly Sanon Konaté
Moussa Sanogo Konaté fils
Naky Sy Savane Sanata
Stéphanie Nikiema Mah
Marie Yameogo Exciseuse
Mabintou Baro Exciseuse
Tata Konaté Exciseuse
Fatoumata Sanogo Exciseuse
Madjara Konaté Exciseuse

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