About Elesin Oba The Kings Horseman Movie
Elesin Oba The Kings Horseman is a Nigerien film released on November 4, 2022. Netflix is the original content. The shooting took place in Boko Haram, Nigeria.The film, which is 1 hour and 36 minutes long, is in the category of adventure, drama and history.
While Biyi Bandele was directing the film, he wrote the script himself. If we look at the cast; Odunlade Adekola, Shaffy Bello, Olawale-Brymo Olofooro, Deyemi Okanlawon, Omowunmi Dada, Jide Kosoko, Mark Elderkin, Jenny Stead, Langley Kirkwood, Drikus Volschenk, Taiwo Ajai-Lycett are among the names.
IMDB received a high score of 9.4 as a result of the votes cast. You can watch the movie on Netflix from November 4, 2022.
Based on real events during the Oyo Empire in the 1940s, Elesin Oba, the king’s most powerful horseman, gives in to the temptation of beauty and desires in the night, which he is destined to repay his ritual suicide commitment for the rest of his life. To accompany the deceased Alaafin to the land of ancestral spirits, he sabotages a crucial spiritual and generational transaction. This causes the course of events that will have disastrous consequences. …
Elesin Oba The Kings Horseman Synopsis
Death and the King’s Horseman takes place in the kingdom of Oyo in southwestern Nigeria in the early 1940s. The Oyo tradition requires that Elesin Oba, the king’s horseman, must commit suicide before the king is buried so that his spirit can lead the king to the great afterlife. But Elesin Oba did not fulfill his duty. The story ends on a tragic note: his son Olunde has to return from studying medicine abroad to commit suicide instead of his father.
Elesin Oba The Kings Horseman Cast
- Odunlade Adekola als Elesin
- ShShaffy Bello als Iyaloja
- Olawale-Brymo Olofooro als Lobpreissänger
- Deyemi Okanlawon als Olunde
- Omowunmi Dada als Braut
- Jide Kosoko als Sergeant Amusa
- Mark Elderkin als Simon
- Jenny Stead als Jane
- Langley Kirkwood als Bewohner
- Fares Boulos als Adjutant
- Kelvin Ushi als Joseph
- Drikus Volschenk als Der Prinz
- Taiwo Ajai-Lycett als Madam Taiwo
- Ajoke Silva als Madam Bola
