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Mirt Sost Shi Amit (Harvest: 3,000 Years) is a 1976 Ethiopian film directed by Haile Gerima.

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
Release date	1976 (1976)
Country	Ethiopia
Languages	Amharic, English

Plot

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.

Production

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)

Cast

• Kasu Yigzaw... Mother
• Gebru Kasa
• Worke Kasa ... Daughter
• Melaku Makonen ... Father
• Adane Melaku ... Son
• Harege-Weyn Tafere ... Grandmother

References

External links

• Harvest: 3,000 Years at IMDb

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