Teza

This evening I went to go see the movie Teza by Ethiopian director Haile
Gerima. I had heard very good reviews and was not disappointed. The
movie opens showing its main character, Anberber, wrapped in bandages,
bloodied and frantically fighting to stay alive. He somehow recovers,
and the movie follows the life of Anberber, mostly through flashbacks of
him and his peers as young, progressive-minded Marxists studying in
Germany in the 1970s. They return to Ethiopia in the 1980s after the
autocratic monarchy is overthrown with hopes to conduct medical research
and fight disease in their homeland, but get wrapped up fighting for
their own lives amongst political turmoil under the Derg dictatorship.
The film made you think and had dark moments, but at the same time was
uplifting to see this character go through so much madness and face so
much insanity and never back down. You can check more at:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1284592/