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A film about resistance and the power of words in the face of violence.
A young man is sent to "La Maca," a prison in the middle of the Ivorian forest ruled by its inmates. As tradition goes with the rising of the red moon, he is designated by the Boss to be the new "Roman" and must tell a story to the other prisoners. Learning what fate awaits him, he begins to narrate the mystical life of the legendary outlaw named "Zama King" and has no choice but to make his story last until dawn.Read moreLess
A young man is sent to "La Maca," a prison in the middle of the Ivorian forest ruled by its inmates. As tradition goes with the rising of the red moon, he is designated by the Boss to be the new "Roman" and must tell a story to the other prisoners. Learning what fate awaits him, he begins to narrate the mystical life of the legendary outlaw named "Zama King" and has no choice but to make his story last until dawn.
The story
A young man is sent to "La Maca," a prison in the middle of the Ivorian forest ruled by its inmates. As tradition goes with the rising of the red moon, he is designated by the Boss to be the new "Roman" and must tell a story to the other prisoners. Learning what fate awaits him, he begins to narrate the mystical life of the legendary outlaw named "Zama King" and has no choice but to make his story last until dawn.
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Steve TientcheuBarbe Noire (Blackbeard)
Issaka SawadogoNivaquine
Denis LavantSilenceExplore the crew
- Original Music Composer
- Olivier Alary
- Director
- Philippe Lacôte
- Editor
- Aube Foglia
- Director of Photography
- Tobie Marier Robitaille
- Producer
- Yanick Létourneau
- Producer
- Ernest Konan
- Producer
- Yoro Mbaye
- Producer
- Delphine Jaquet
- Screenplay
- Philippe Lacôte

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