Elesin Oba: The King's Horseman
2022 · 96 MIN · IMDB 9.6 · 101 VOTES · DIR. Biyi Bandele
Overview
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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00:02:29 - Daddy. May you live long. - Daddy.
00:06:56 - The smell of indigo on their clothes... - Hm.
00:09:50 Not heaven's attendant.
00:13:03 - ♪ Elesin Oba! ♪ - Our father!
00:17:16 Elesin Oba!
00:20:57 It's like speaking against the government to someone in a police uniform.
00:25:15 I would like us to honor it.
00:28:08 Olunde.
00:31:25 Ah, Simon, it's obvious we have to miss this ball.
00:36:16 for as long as he wishes,
00:38:17 what he would do if he was prevented
00:45:49 and laughter, not in the palace.
00:51:15 I took the liberty of opening it because His Highness was obviously
00:53:48 Oh... Amusa.
00:56:39 I was sent a cable that the King had died.
00:59:09 Can you hear the drums?
01:05:51 It is a beautiful night.
01:09:40 As you wish.
01:13:08 Madam, I want you to remain along this line,
01:16:06 It's now on the way.
01:19:32 and he does not wait for despicable laggards that keep smelling dogs' vomit
01:22:36 I find some joy
01:26:19 My companion, if you had followed when you should have,
01:29:52 Let us turn instead to the unborn.
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