'Back Home from Justice', Abeiku Sagoe's fifth movie premiered

Accra, Nov. 05, GNA – 'Back Home from Justice' a movie by Abeiku Sagoe, a veteran actor, producer and a movie director, was on Sunday premiered in Accra.

The movie, which is the fifth by Mr Sagoe, centres on the extent people could go to become chiefs in their villages and it was shot at locations in Kumasi, Accra, Cape Coast, Elmina and Akwanda.

The movie featured several artistes including William Addo, Martha Ankomah, Eddie Nartey, Fred Amugi, Edinam Atasti, Vicky Zugah amongst others.

It portrays how Cudjoe played by Eddie Nartey returns from prison on a presidential pardon after serving twelve out of thirty years for the murder of his girlfriend.

In his absence, Gyarteng played by Solomon Sampah, does everything to be selected to the stool, only that the queen mother would not nominate him.

Then Cudjoe takes another girlfriend who is soon murdered, but this time, Cudjoe flees from the police to avoid justice and it takes his intelligent school mate, Adzo played by Vicky Zugah, an undercover police agent, posing as a mad woman to unravel the mystery surrounding the murder.

For the rest of the story, 'Back Home from Justice' is available in any movie shop.

Abeiku Sagoe, an artiste with over 40 years experience in the movie industry, has won both local and international awards and some of his productions include: 'A Knock from Inside', 'Samori', and 'Avenger' and 'Nemesis'.

In 2004, his film, 'Nemesis' was officially selected for exhibition at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival and was actually only one of three films in the category from Africa.

He is also the writer, director and producer of the highly rated 'Standard Life' which is currently serialized on TV3 and shown at 9pm on Mondays.

GNA