War, revenge and...love story
With the series Shaka Ilembe CANAL+ Original takes on one of the most emblematic figures in African history: King Shaka who succeeded in building an empire by uniting more than 100 chiefdoms into one kingdom Zulu. All the same, you should not expect exclusively a series of clan wars ending in bloodshed.
On the contrary, from the first episode we are caught up in the budding love story between Princess Nandi, daughter of Mbengi, and Senzanghakona, son of King Jama of the Zulus, Shaka's parents. Thanks to the brilliant interpretation of the actors, the natural settings magnified by the direction of photography and the richness of the costumes, we are catapulted to the 18th century, in South Africa, and we want to stay there.
A meeting with History
The series required 6 years of work and a large behind-the-scenes team of historians, intellectuals, traditional leaders, guardians of oral history, royal advisors and the very descendants of Shaka's family to that the work is as close aspossible to historical reality. The result is astonishingly true and the reconstructions of the villages, rituals and dances are very successful. The Zulu dialogues are subtitled in the original version.
Shaka Ilembe, exclusively on CANAL+ Première, every Monday from July 1 at 8:30 p.m., two new episodes per evening.
For those wondering why it is regarded as Canal+ instead of M-Net it has nothing to do with the pending acquisition of MultiChoice. But rather Canal+ acquired French rights to the show hence "Canal+ Original Series" again nothing shocking about this.
eMedia Investments sources most of eExtra's Kuiertyd content from Turkey with production house Verklank credited for the dubs. Then there's Netflix licensing agreements with Nickelodeon, DreamWorks and Telemundo hence "Netflix Original/Exclusive".
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