DECO

THREE FILMS AGAINST

LONI
ZING
THE ITALIAN COLONIAL
OCCUPATION
Introduced by

ITALY
Pietro Bianchi
(Romance Studies)

29 October, Social Sciences 136, 7:00

ADWA - AN AFRICAN VICTORY
(Haile Gerima, 1999, 96 min, Amharic/English w/ Eng subs)
In 1896, the Ethiopian army, equipped mostly with spears and knives, defeats the
organized Italian military bent on conquest and colonization. The Ethiopian triumph
ignited a lasting flame of hope, of freedom and independence in the hearts of African
people
 
12 November, Social Sciences 136, 7:00
TEZA
(Haile Gerima, 2008, 140 min, Amharic/English w/ Eng subs)
The definitive masterpiece of Haile Gerima. The difficult Ethiopian postcolonial
transition seen from the eyes of Anberber, an Ethopian doctor who emigrated to study
in West Germany and when he comes back to his country struggles with the brutality of
the regime of Mengistu
 
19 November, Social Sciences 136, 7:00
LION OF THE DESERT
(Moustapha Akkad, 1981, 163 min, English/Arabic/Italian w/ Eng subs)
Based on the true story of the guerrilla fighter Omar al-Mukhtar, who fought the Italians
in Lybia, this Anthony Quinn and Oliver Reed-starred blockbuster in part financed by
Hollywood and in part by Gaddafian Lybia, has been banned for decades in Italy
because it supposedly “damaged the honor of the Italian army”