Movie Details
Original Language:English
Negus Lee Scratch Perry
StarringLee Perry
DirectorsSimone BertuzziSimone Trabucchi
11 minMusic
Plot
The legendary Jamaicanborn dub and regga master Rasta Lee Scratch Perry the spiritual MC of the film invokes Haile Selassie in a fiery reenactment of an historical event from the Italian Fascist period when an effigy of the last Negus of Ethiopia Haile Selassie I was burned in the main square of the filmmakers hometown Vernasca a village located between Milano and Bologna At the same time Hailé Selassié I was becoming the Black Messiah for Rastafarianism a movement born in Jamaica during the 30s and spread all over the planet including Ethiopia considered the Mother Land by Rasta followers
