Politics Do Not a Banquet Make Movie Review 1997

Fifteen hundred farmers in Tigray, Ethiopia, work under extremely primitive conditions to construct a huge dam while far off in the capital of Addis Ababa democracy is at a slow start after the feudalistic rule of Emperor Haile Selassie and the dictatorship of army leader Mengistu.

Distribution

First Run/Icarus Films, 32 Court St., 21st Fl., Brooklyn, NY 11201, Phone: (718)488-8900, Fax: (718)488-8642, Email: mailroom@frif.com, URL: http://www.frif.com

Available on VHS
Running time 52 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Africa, Documentary Films