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Biography |
She studied Philosophy and Psychology at the University of Athens.
She also studied film direction at the L.Stavrakos Film School. |
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Awards |
| - FIPRESCI award for Elias Petropoulos, an underground world ( Thessaloniki -2005 ) |
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Filmography |
The Catastrophe ”, Fiction, 15´, 1991
Games of the Heart ”, Fiction, 10´, 1994
The Wheel ”, Fiction, 18´, 1996
Desires on hot sand ”, Fiction, 17´, 1999
Lovely Big Veta ”, Doc 23´, 2000
Small steps in a big world ”, Doc, 63´, 2002
Keratsini – Old and New Refugees,, Doc, 50´, 2003
From Midnight to 06:00, Doc, 50´, 2003
Women in Sports ”, Doc, 50´,2003 Elias Petropoulos – An underground world ”, Doc, 61', 2004. FIPRESCI award (Thessaloniki -200 ). |
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Contact |
Kalliopi Legaki AGIOU ELEFTHERIOU 120 KAMINIA 18541 Piraeus Tel.: +3210-4815966 Fax : +3210-4832081
E-mail: portolan@hol.gr |
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Composers |
| Script: | Kalliopi Legaki | | Cinematography: | Giannis Misouridis | | Sound: | George Vasiliou | | Editing: | Elias Dimitriou | | Mixing: | Kostas Varibobiotis | | Music: | Nikos Papadogoulas | | Narration: | George Kentros | | Producer: | Maria Gentekou | | Production: | ERT, Hellenic Cinematography Center and PORTOLANOS FILMS |
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Summary |
“I present the world through a different perspective than what we were taught at school or in the army.
I believe that we each have the right to see society with our own eyes.
Personally, I am more interested in the Devil than in God.
”Elias Petropoulos.
A restless and inquisitive spirit, a foe of academics and the establishment, Petropoulos was the first folklorist in Greece who dealt with social outcasts and described people and situations ignored by his country’s official history.
Our camera meets him in his office in Paris where he lived in self-exile for the last thirty years when, disappointed with the political situation in his country and tired of repeated persecution and imprisonment he decided to leave Greece.
In this his last interview a few months before he died of cancer, Petropoulos takes us on a journey to unknown landscapes of our tradition and Greek-ness and acquaints us with all those people who belong to our social underground and who dominate his books.
Rebetika musicians, bums, spivs, whores and homosexuals, people tormented and persecuted by their social environment meet in front of our camera the way they once met in his books.
As the camera follows the same underground passages as the writer’s, it reveals Petropoulos’ complex personality, a man who even when he left for Paris never stopped for a moment working passionately, collecting material for his books and overturning established values and positions.
Besides, even with his death he showed us all that he remained an unrepentant, anarchist ideologist and one of the last romantics of our century.
Kalliopi Legaki about her film The first day of my acquaintance with Petropoulos in France was determinative.
I was welcomed by a severe man, dressed with suit and tie, which, among papers and books, was smoking unceasingly and was asking me lots of questions on literature and politics, painting, photography and cinema.
When the game of interrogation was over, and the old madman understood that was staying on a solid ground and could count on me, he smiled under his moustache and started looking an album with family photos and talking to me for his childhood in Salonica.
I took out the camera and started filming him, in order to make a pilot for the Hellenik Cinema Center.
With Petropoulos, I did not meet again.
We were talking of course on the phone with great warmness, having in thought that we will meet again.
But life plays peculiar games.
Some months passed, waiting with a great hope a financing from the Center to continue this documentary.
All these time nobody-even his wife knew- that Petropoulos was dying from cancer.
Some months later, September 2003, we said farewell to him on the crematorium of Paris.
My camera was filming continuously.
When his ashes, were scattered-as he had wished in his testament-in the sewer, for his last journey to dirty and dark places, then I realized that my personal long trip has started.
For the documentary to succeed to reach Petropoulos and for the audience, by this film, to get to know this so complicated personality, we all had to take, as he did, the same dark and underground ways.
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Distribution |
Portolanos Films
Maria Gentekou
23 X. Trikoupi, Piraeus 185 36
Tel: +30210 4535037
Fax: +30210 4832081
E-mail: portolan@hol.gr |
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