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.
Biyi Bandele
Director
Wole Soyinka
Writer
Odunlade Adekola
Elesin
Shaffy Bello
Iyaloja
Olawale-Brymo Olofooro
Praise Singer
Deyemi Okanlawon
Olunde
Omowunmi Dada
Bride
Jide Kosoko
Sergeant Amusa
Mark Elderkin
Simon
Jenny Stead
Jane
Langley Kirkwood
Resident
Hardball65%
Holy Lands61%
Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl72%
Farming62%
Salomé62%
The Nest60%
La joven69%
Pimp62%
Mexicali77%
I Am Elizabeth Smart68%
Hands of Stone66%
El Chicano66%
Lorelei59%
Run60%
All Day and a Night62%
Bastard Out of Carolina71%
The Safety of Objects65%
Iron Jawed Angels67%
Charm City Kings78%
Kisses71%
