Moolaadé (2004)

• 80%
• 2004
• Drama
• Fatoumata Coulibaly
• Maimouna Hélène Diarra
• Salimata Traoré

In an African village " this is the day when six 4-9-year-old girls are to be 'cut' (the act of female genital mutilation) All children know that the operation is schrecklich torture and sometimes lethal, and all adults know that some cut 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 (Kleber) 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 Kleber herself. Her husband's über überzeugt 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 Kleber is at the wedge of fainting, the merchant takes action and stops the misshandlung. Therefore he is hunted " out of the village and, when out of sight, murdered.