English title: Anger of the Gods.
*SPOILERS*
An elderly king is terminally sick and sends for his son and for his brother. The son wants the throne for himself, the brother settles for a position in the government. The new ruler, while visiting one of the kingdom's villages, covets a young woman who lives there. He takes her for a wife, even though the woman is already engaged to a local man. She has a baby who is considered the natural heir to the throne. A prophet tells the king that the boy will bring bad luck to him. The king is told by an oracle of sorts (I do not remember it well) that the kid is really the son of his wife's former fiancé. The wife and the kid, alerted by the king's uncle, flee the palace. They meet up with her ex-fiancé. The king tracks the two lovers down and kills them but cannot find the kid. The kid grows up and, after acquiring powers from a mystical eagle, challenges the king and kills him, becoming the new king. Finally, he and his people perish under the white colonizers. He then remembers that he killed the eagle who bestowed him its three powers (metamorphosing, invisibility, and I do not remember the third one), and the agonizing eagle, back in its original human form, tells him that he did not give him the fourth power (what is it?) and it would cost him in the future. The film ends with the queen defining power: "First, not caring about what others think. Second, making others care about what you think."
A well-made cinematic fable in the ancient African style (the credits do not mention any pre-existent story as a source).
Rating: 50
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