| Mirt Sost Shi Amit (Harvest: 3,000 Years) | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Haile Gerima |
| Starring | See below |
| Cinematography | Elliot Davis |
| Edited by | Phillip Kuretsky |
| Music by | Tesfaye Lemma |
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| Country | Ethiopia |
| Languages | 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)[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.
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.[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)
