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Teza
Directed by
Haile Gerima
Not Rated
2008
2h 20m
Drama
7.1
88%
80%
7.5
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Anberber returns to Ethiopia under Mengistu Haile Mariam's regime, finds his homeland broken, and must choose between surrender and rebuilding.
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Cast of Teza
Aaron Arefe
Anberber
Abiye Tedla
Tesfaye
Takelech Beyene
Tadfe
Teje Tesfahun
Azanu
Nebiyu Baye
Ayalew
Wuhib Bayu
Abdul
Araba E. Johnston Arthur
Cassandra
Veronika Avraham
Gabi
Mengistu Zelalem
Anberber as a child
Haile Gerima
Director / Screenplay / Producer / Editor
Karl Baumgartner
Producer
Marie-Michèlegravele Cattelain
Producer
Philippe Avril
Producer
Loren Lillian
Editor
Jorga Mesfin
Music
Vijay Iyer
Music
Teza Ratings & Reviews
Los Angeles Times
Michael Ordoña
The herky-jerky quality of the experience, exacerbated by writer-director Gerima's restless editing, makes Anberber's story difficult to follow.
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Chris Hewitt
The storytelling is a deliberate muddle, jumbling time and space to suggest Anberber's aghast confusion. But if you stick with it for 140 minutes, everything does come together in an ending that is lyrical and devastating and just about perfect.
Variety
Alissa Simon
Ultimately rewards the viewer's patience with a potent sense of Ethiopian history and culture.
Seattle Times
Ted Fry
Both intimate and sprawling in its scope and reach, Teza is a remarkable portrait of the tortured political and social history that Ethiopia suffered in the last decades of the 20th century.
New York Press
Armond White
Gerima opposes the utter triviality of movies about black peoples' lives. He's made a deeply-felt drama about the complexity of the diaspora experience-a connection to Africa, the Mother continent, that gets totally ignored in most films we see...
NYC Movie Guru
Avi Offer
Occasionally drags, but remains a provocative, brave, potent and heartfelt drama brimming with haunting, lyrical images and important sociopolitical messages.
New York Times
Matt Zoller Seitz
He doesn't just reject political, philosophical, sexual, racial and spiritual dogma of every sort. He seems to view dogma itself as the one true evil: the ideological armor of bullies throughout history; the enemy of freedom, of art, of happiness itself.
Village Voice
Andrew Schenker
tands as a richly expansive portrait of a man caught between an untenable exile and the terrible consequences of his homeland's violent past.
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