Oka!
2012, NR, 105 min. Directed by Lavinia Currier. Starring Peter Riegert, Will Yun Lee, Kris Marshall, Haviland Morris, Isaach De Bankolé.
Not reviewed at press time. Oka! is a fictionalized drama about the experiences of Louis Sarno, an American-born ethnomusicologist who went to Central Africa in the mid-1980s to record the music of the Bayaka Pygmies. He married a Bayakan and has lived in the African forest for nearly three decades.
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Oka!, Lavinia Currier, Peter Riegert, Will Yun Lee, Kris Marshall, Haviland Morris, Isaach De Bankolé
