--- title: 'October 1 (2014)' type: 'film' director: 'Kunle Afolayan' released: '2014-10-01' runtime_minutes: 145 genres: - 'Drama' - 'Crime' - 'Mystery' - 'Thriller' - 'History' countries: - 'Nigeria' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/october-1-2014' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3206616/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # October 1 (2014) 2014 · 145 min · Drama, Crime, Mystery, Thriller, History · Nigeria ## Synopsis October 1 is a 2014 Nigerian thriller film written by Tunde Babalola, produced and directed by Kunle Afolayan, and starring Sadiq Daba, Kayode Olaiya, and Demola Adedoyin. The film is set in the last months of Colonial Nigeria in 1960. It recounts the fictional story of Danladi Waziri (Daba), a police officer from Northern Nigeria, investigating a series of killings of young women in the remote Western Nigeria village of Akote just before 1 October 1960 – the date Nigeria gained independence from British colonial rule. ## Credits - **Director:** [Kunle Afolayan](https://cinepixo.com/people/kunle-afolayan) - **Producer:** [Kunle Afolayan](https://cinepixo.com/people/kunle-afolayan) - **Screenplay:** [Tunde Babalola](https://cinepixo.com/people/tunde-babalola) - **Original Music Composer:** [Kulanen Ikyo](https://cinepixo.com/people/kulanen-ikyo) - **Director of Photography:** [Yinka Edward](https://cinepixo.com/people/yinka-edward) ## Cast - [Femi Adebayo](https://cinepixo.com/people/femi-adebayo) as Banji - [Kanayo O. Kanayo](https://cinepixo.com/people/kanayo-o-kanayo) as Okafor - [Kehinde Bankole](https://cinepixo.com/people/kehinde-bankole) as Miss Tawa - [Sadiq Daba](https://cinepixo.com/people/sadiq-daba) as Waziri - [David Bailie](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-bailie) as Ackerman - [Deola Sagoe](https://cinepixo.com/people/deola-sagoe) as Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti - [Meg Otanwa](https://cinepixo.com/people/meg-otanwa) as Yejide - [Kunle Afolayan](https://cinepixo.com/people/kunle-afolayan) as Agbekoya - [Bimbo Manuel](https://cinepixo.com/people/bimbo-manuel) as Canon Kuforiji ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Official site: http://www.october1themovie.com/ Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/october-1-2014 Film facts: Wikidata (Q16733965); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.