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Albert Collins & The Icebreakers - In Concert (2007) 

Albert Collins & The Icebreakers - In Concert

(2007)

Runtime

1 hour 30 minutes

Guidance Rating

TBA

Release Date (South Africa)

2017-02-03

music

festival

Synopsis

"It began with the 1974 revolution which overthrew the country’s last Emperor Haileselassie. Hailemariam Mengistu and the other military officers who led the coup then refused to hand over power to a civilian government, enraging leftist student activists. These students launched a campaign of “White terror” for democratic change and the overthrow of the military junta. Hundreds of officials and supporters from the new military government were assassinated. The military government retaliated with what was later dubbed the “Red Terror”, eliminating real and imagined enemies of the “revolution” and the country. The main character is a football coach played by Berhanu Degafe, uses his job as an escape from the danger of forcible recruitment into a local government approved security force. He trains his players on roads littered with dumped bodies of “anti-revolutionaries” and anti-government leaflets as he tries to juggle family disapproval with his desire to build a great football team a

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Albert Collins & The Icebreakers - In Concert