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{{Infobox film
| name           =  Harvest: 3,000 Years
| image          =Harvest 3000 Years title card.png
| caption        =Title card
| director       = [[Haile Gerima]]
| producer       =
| writer         =Haile Gerima
| narrator       =
| starring       = See below
| music          = Tesfaye Lemma
| cinematography = [[Elliot Davis (cinematographer)|Elliot Davis]]
| editing        = Phillip Kuretsky
| distributor    =Mypheduh Films
| released       = {{film date|1976}}
| runtime        =150 minutes
| country        =  Ethiopia
| language       = [[Amharic language|Amharic]]
| budget         =
| gross          =
}}
'''''Harvest: 3,000 Years''''', also called by its [[Amharic]] name '''''Mirt Sost Shi Amit''''' ({{Lang|am|ምርት "፫ሺህ ዓመት"}} ''mirt "sost shīh ‘amet"''), is a 1976 [[Ethiopia]]n film directed by [[Haile Gerima]].
==Plot==
For the production of ''Mirt Sost Shi Amit'' (''Harvest: 3,000 Years'')<ref>Asrat, H., Abesha.com, "[http://www.abesha.com/zn/zine/reviews/harvest_3000_years/ H. Asrat’s review of ''Harvest:3,000 Years'' on Abesha.Com] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090619230252/http://www.abesha.com/zn/zine/reviews/harvest_3000_years |date=2009-06-19 }}", March 4, 2009</ref> 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 [[Ethiopian Civil War|a civil war]] after the overthrow of [[Haile Selassie]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Harvest 3000 Years {{!}} Tribeca Film Festival|url=https://tribecafilm.com/filmguide/archive/512cfeeb1c7d76e046002311-harvest-3000-years|website=Tribeca|accessdate=16 October 2016}}{{Dead link|date=July 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
Haile Gerima has said<ref>{{cite web|title=Decolonizing the Filmic Mind: An Interview with Haile Gerima|url=http://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1377&context=asc_papers|website=repository.upenn.edu|accessdate=16 October 2016}}</ref> {{Blockquote|text= 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 |author=John L. Jackson Jr |title=Decolonizing the Filmic Mind: An Interview with Haile Gerima|source=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==
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==External links==
*{{IMDb title|id=0073394|title=Harvest: 3,000 Years}}
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[[Category:1976 films]]
[[Category:Ethiopian documentary films]]
[[Category:Amharic-language films]]
[[Category:English-language Ethiopian films]]
[[Category:1976 drama films]]
[[Category:Ethiopian black-and-white films]]
[[Category:Films directed by Haile Gerima]]
[[Category:1970s English-language films]]
[[Category:English-language documentary films]]
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