In Africa, the kingdom of Ganzurgu is shaken by a severe political crisis. The king appoints his cousin Katanga as the head of the army. But a seer predicts that he, in turn, will ascend to the throne. This is the premise of the film Katanga, the Dance of the Scorpions, the movie that won the Golden Stallion of Yennenga at the last FESPACO, the Pan-African film festival in Ouagadougou.
Screened at the Marennes-Oléron festival, Katanga, the Dance of the Scorpions, adapts Shakespeare’s tragedy, Macbeth, to an African setting.
The film transposes the story into the Mooré language and features more diverse female characters than in the original tragedy.