The Photographers
Oi fotografoi
Greece, Cyprus, Bulgaria
1998
110 Min
Color
2.35:1
English, Greek
Synopsis
A group of journalists is crossing the desert, following Captain Jesu El Din. Their goal is a silver mine lost in a remote region somewhere in the East. The civil war has no rules for the winner and compassion for the loser. El Din’s troops are entering victorious in the village near the mine and execute any man who survived the deadly battle. Only women wander the streets like ghosts. The bodies of the dead are slumped in amorphous masses in ditches or at the roadside. Sahar Bloomendahl, an American photographer, captures with her lens the images of horror. A terrified girl is desperately searching for the body of her slain brother and in the next moment, she’ll come face to face with the American girl. The two women look like two drops of water. Fascinated by their strange similarity, they walk together till the edge of horror, innocent symbols and at the same time victims of the paranoia that marks our time. —artplex.gr
Director
Nikos Koundouros
Nikos Koundouros (Greek: Νίκος Κούνδουρος), is a Greek film director, born in Agios Nikolaos, Crete in 1926.
He studied painting and sculpture at the Athens School of Fine Arts, and was later exiled because of his political beliefs to the Makronissos island. At the age of 28 he decided to follow a career in cinematography. He started his career as a director of the film Magiki Polis (1954), where he combined his neorealism influences with his own artistic viewpoint. He cast Thanasis Veggos, who he had met at Makronissos, as one of the characters in Magiki Polis. After the release of his complex and innovative film O Drakos, he found acceptance as a prominent artist in Greece and Europe, and acquired important awards in various international and Greek film festivals. His 1963 film Young Aphrodites won the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 13th Berlin International Film Festival. —Wikipedia
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Dimitris Psachos
11Mar11
I have dozens of complaints concerning the rawness Koundouros effectively portrays, be it a physical one on behalf of the ravishing troops or a completely neutral one which resides in the quiet moments of the journalists or the land's impoverishment, an important protagonist in the course of the film. Iatropoulos exaggerates as time goes by but Vakousis keeps the tempo in reasonable proportions.
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