Mirt Sost Shi Amit (Harvest: 3,000 Years) | |
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Directed by | Haile Gerima |
Starring | See below |
Music by | Tesfaye Lemma |
Cinematography | Elliot Davis |
Edited by | Phillip Kuretsky |
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Country | Ethiopia |
Language | Amharic, English |
Mirt Sost Shi Amit (Harvest: 3,000 Years) is a 1976 Ethiopian film directed by Haile Gerima.
For the production of Mirt Sost Shi Amit (Harvest: 3,000 Years) 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.
Harvest: 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.
Haile Gerima has said
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