Harvest: 3,000 Years, also called by its Amharic name Mirt Sost Shi Amit (ምርት "፫ሺህ ዓመት" mirt "sost shīh ‘amet"), is a 1976 Ethiopian film directed by Haile Gerima.
| Harvest: 3,000 Years | |
|---|---|
 Title card | |
| Directed by | Haile Gerima |
| Written by | Haile Gerima |
| Starring | See below |
| Cinematography | Elliot Davis |
| Edited by | Phillip Kuretsky |
| Music by | Tesfaye Lemma |
| Distributed by | Mypheduh Films |
Release date |
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Running time | 150 minutes |
| Country | Ethiopia |
| Language | Amharic |
Plot
editFor the production of Mirt Sost Shi Amit (Harvest: 3,000 Years)[1] Gerima returned to his native Ethiopia to produce the tale of a poor peasant family who eke out an existence within a brutal, exploitative, and feudal system of labor.
Production
editHarvest: 3,000 Years was shot on black and white 16mm film. It used non-actors, and was shot in the midst of a civil war after the overthrow of Haile Selassie.[2]
Haile Gerima has said[3]
The first film I made in Ethiopia, Harvest: 3000 Years, shows you the actual footprints of my youth, of where I grew up with my father and the rest of my family
— John L. Jackson Jr, Decolonizing the Filmic Mind: An Interview with Haile Gerima, CALLALOO: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters (2010)
Cast
edit- Kasu Yigzaw... Mother
- Gebru Kasa
- Worke Kasa ... Daughter
- Melaku Makonen ... Father
- Adane Melaku ... Son
- Harege-Weyn Tafere ... Grandmother
References
edit- ^ Asrat, H., Abesha.com, "H. Asrat’s review of Harvest:3,000 Years on Abesha.Com Archived 2009-06-19 at the Wayback Machine", March 4, 2009
- ^ "Harvest 3000 Years | Tribeca Film Festival". Tribeca. Retrieved 16 October 2016.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Decolonizing the Filmic Mind: An Interview with Haile Gerima". repository.upenn.edu. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
External links
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