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Teza is a Éthiopien film of genre Drama directed by Hailé Gerima released in USA on 1 january 2008
Teza (2008)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 1 january 2008
Length 2h20
Directed by Hailé Gerima
Originéthiopie
Themes Films set in Africa
Rating70%
Teza is a 2008 Ethiopian drama film about the Derg period in Ethiopia. Teza won the top award at the 2009 Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou. The film was directed and written by Haile Gerima.
Synopsis
Set in 1970s Ethiopia, Teza (Morning Dew) tells the story of a young Ethiopian as he returns from West Germany a postgraduate. Anberber comes back to a country at the height of the Cold War and under the Marxist regime of Mengistu Haile Mariam. Working in a health institution he witnesses a brutal murder and finds himself at odds with the revolutionary gangsters running the country. He is ordered by the regime to take up a post in East Germany and uses this opportunity to escape to the West until the Berlin Wall falls and Ethiopia's military regime is overthrown.Comments
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