Elesin Oba: The King's Horseman
Film · 96 min · English · 2022
Directed by Biyi Bandele
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 ancest…
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- Nigeria
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- 2026-10-06
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- MRR-2022-FLM-920189
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