Romantic suspense
“And Edil” hits screens
By Alemayehu Seife Selassie
Addis ABABA, Ethiopia - A romantic suspense film
by Spark Film Production and Black Angel Films Production, “And
Edil” (“One Chance”), was released last week
Saturday. The film has regular screenings on Friday, Saturday
and Sunday at Alem and Empire cinemas.
Consuming a 190,000 birr in production, “And Edil”
is a low budget film, yet it contains travel and action scenes
from Addis Ababa to the cities of Lalibela and Dessie in the north.
Its appearance is similar to many highly-budgeted Ethiopian films.
“And Edil” is a romantic suspense that tells the story
of one dedicated lover who builds a relationship with a school
girl, and helps her through the hardship her family was in. His
dream woman, however, gets tricked into bed by a player, and shies
away from her lover, eaten by guilty conscious. As she runs away
from her lover, played by the script writer Solomon, he goes out
searching for her in the town of Dessie.
The script writer, producer and lead actor, Solomon Alemu Feleke,
stated that in order to produce a high standard film like And
Edil, he and his team have tried their level best. “During
the last 20 minutes of the film we get lots of ‘wows’
from cinema-goers. And in order to take that shot, I had to do
some of the stunts myself,” he said.
And Edil is directed by the renowned script writer Adonis, and
actors Solomon Alemu, Meron Getenet, Samson Tadesse, Wubalem Alebachew,
Meron Teshome and Alasar Samuel have taken part in it.
Solomon has previously taken an acting role in the film “Mahider,”
but taking the production and lead character’s role through
his and his partners Adonis and Daniel’s company, Spark
Films, was an entirely different experience. Despite the fact
that being an experienced motorcyclist came in handy for him,
he had to improve a lot in order to do the film. “There
were incidents where I was driving a motorbike on a muddy slope
and the bike slid out for about seven meters on the wet earth.
Meron had fallen and she broke a bone,” he said.
Solomon is working on another film that Adonis will be directing.
Spark Films is going to be producing the film, but Solomon stated
that the next film is not going to have a very small budget. Currently
untitled, it will start shooting in five months. •
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