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Inspired by true life events, in the Oyo Empire in the 1940's, Elesin Oba, the king's chief horseman, succumbs to the lure of beauty and sexual desire on the very evening he is set to die in order to fulfil his lifelong debt of ritual suicide to accompany the dead Alaafin to the realm of the ancestors, he derails from a very important generational and spiritual transaction. This sets in motion a series of catastrophic consequences, in a spell-binding film of emotions, humour, and tragic role reversals that puts ancient beliefs and customs on trial in an ever increasingly post-modern and Western world.Read moreLess
Inspired by true life events, in the Oyo Empire in the 1940's, Elesin Oba, the king's chief horseman, succumbs to the lure of beauty and sexual desire on the very evening he is set to die in order to fulfil his lifelong debt of ritual suicide to accompany the dead Alaafin to the realm of the ancestors, he derails from a very important generational and spiritual transaction. This sets in motion a series of catastrophic consequences, in a spell-binding film of emotions, humour, and tragic role reversals that puts ancient beliefs and customs on trial in an ever increasingly post-modern and Western world.
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Inspired by true life events, in the Oyo Empire in the 1940's, Elesin Oba, the king's chief horseman, succumbs to the lure of beauty and sexual desire on the very evening he is set to die in order to fulfil his lifelong debt of ritual suicide to accompany the dead Alaafin to the realm of the ancestors, he derails from a very important generational and spiritual transaction. This sets in motion a series of catastrophic consequences, in a spell-binding film of emotions, humour, and tragic role reversals that puts ancient beliefs and customs on trial in an ever increasingly post-modern and Western world.
Watch trailerCast & crew
Odunlade AdekolaElesin
Shaffy BelloIyaloja
Deyemi OkanlawonOlunde
Omowunmi DadaBride
Jide KosokoSergeant Amusa
Mark ElderkinSimon
Jenny SteadJane
Langley KirkwoodResidentExplore the crew
- Director
- Biyi Bandele
- Producer
- James Amuta
- Producer
- Judith Audu
- Producer
- Adeola Osunkojo
- Producer
- Quinty Pillay
- Original Music Composer
- Sir Peter Badejo Obe
- Director of Photography
- Lance Gewer
- Editor
- Thomas Adetunji
- Writer
- Wole Soyinka