Míkis Theodorakis
Nacimiento : 1925-07-29, Chios, Greece
Muerte : 2021-09-02
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Michael "Mikis" Theodorakis is a Greek songwriter and famous composer. He scored for the films Zorba the Greek (1964), Z (1969), and Serpico (1973). He is viewed as Greece's best-known living composer.
Politically, he identified with the left until the late 1980s; in 1989, he ran as an independent candidate within the centre-right New Democracy party in order for the country to come out of the political crisis that had been created due to the numerous scandals of the government of Andreas Papandreou[3] and helped to establish a large coalition between conservatives, socialists and leftists. In 1990 he was elected to the parliament (as in 1964 and 1981), became a government minister under Constantine Mitsotakis, and fought against drugs and terrorism and for culture, education and better relations between Greece and Turkey. He continues to speak out in favor of left-liberal causes, Greek-Turkish-Cypriot relations, and against the War in Iraq. He has consistently opposed oppressive regimes and was a key voice against the Greek junta 1967-1974, which imprisoned him.
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An intimate look into the life of composer Mikis Theodorakis from 1987 until 2017: comprising three decades, four continents, 100 locations and 600 hours of film material. The film interweaves personal moments with archive footage, documentary recordings and fictional pieces, all accompanied by Theodorakis’ music in jazz, classic, electro and rap versions.
Mikis Theodorakis
An intimate look into the life of composer Mikis Theodorakis from 1987 until 2017: comprising three decades, four continents, 100 locations and 600 hours of film material. The film interweaves personal moments with archive footage, documentary recordings and fictional pieces, all accompanied by Theodorakis’ music in jazz, classic, electro and rap versions.
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The Greek composer takes the viewers on a journey through 70 years of his prolific musical career. He talks, analyzes and unfolds the inspirations of his works using a plethora of archive films which illustrate his explanations.
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When the old fisherman tries to convince his donkey to climb the steep winding road of their Greek island, he finds Mariza to be one suborn ass. But the old man knows that no one can resist Zorba's dance.
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When the old fisherman tries to convince his donkey to climb the steep winding road of their Greek island, he finds Mariza to be one suborn ass. But the old man knows that no one can resist Zorba's dance.
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Manos, a Greek school teacher, is forced to travel to Melbourne, Australia when the man who murdered his grandfather 57 years ago surfaces there. While the reluctant Manos is tutored in the art of revenge by old friend Stephanos, he also attempts to patch things up with his former fiance Nicki.
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The complete version of “Greece: The Hidden War” television series produced by Jane Gabriel consists of 3 episodes: “The Battle for Athens”, “The Civil War”, “The Homecoming", and explores the profound impact British policy in the 1940s had on Greek democracy and society for decades. Broadcast in 1986, it gave rise to “the biggest uproar in the history of British television”. Greek interviewees who lived through the events of that time speak openly about their experiences. The defeated Left fled into exile in 1949 and waited more than thirty years for the Amnesty of 1982 to return. After extensive coverage of the row in the British press, Channel 4 agreed that the series would not be shown again either in the UK or abroad. - Yanis Yanoulopoulos, Historical Advisor to the television series, Emeritus Professor, Panteion University
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A poetic visit to the city of Athens, based on paintings, poems and philosophical texts.
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A medical student (Pavlos Sidiropoulos) delays his studies to become a singer in this story of a man who follows his own convictions. He becomes a street singer and finds a young woman (Betty Livanou) he wishes to marry. After the two are wed, he returns to medical school to support his wife and family. He earns his medical degree and lands a job in a hospital. When he refuses to take part in the exploitation of the patients, he is fired. He opens his own practice but later quits when he is asked to participate in another fraudulent medical scam.
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Adaptación de la tragedia griega de Eurípides "Ifigenia en Aulide". Antes de la guerra de Troya, cuando las tropas aqueas se preparaban para zarpar de Áulide con destino a Troya, la ausencia de viento retuvo a los mil navíos griegos en el puerto. Un adivino reveló que Artemisa, la diosa de la caza, estaba furiosa porque los griegos habían matado a uno de los animales que ella protegía. La única manera de apaciguar a la diosa y obtener vientos favorables para zarpar era sacrificar a Ifigenia, la hija de Agamenón, quien se vio sumido en un trágico conflicto moral.
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Crónica de la represión que una compañía extranjera ejerce contra los mineros de un pequeño pueblo resuelto a reivindicar sus más elementales derechos. El detonante es el hallazgo del cadáver de un capataz de la empresa. Las amenazas de la compañía fomentan la unión de los trabajadores, que se tambalea cuando llega el ejército dispuesto a aplastar la rebelión.
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A documentary presenting people and events connected with the most important political developments from the student uprising at the Athens Polytechnic in 1973 until the first year of democratic rule after the dictatorship collapsed in 1974.
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An indictment of the Greek military junta of 1967–1974. The film tries to give a reconstruction of the events during the students' uprising in the Athens Polytechnic (November 1973) by documents, rehearsals, interviews, songs and poems.
An indictment of the Greek military junta of 1967–1974. The film tries to give a reconstruction of the events during the students' uprising in the Athens Polytechnic (November 1973) by documents, rehearsals, interviews, songs and poems.
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Años 70. Relato biográfico sobre Frank Serpico, un policía íntegro, de principios incorruptibles que, a diferencia de sus colegas, nunca se dejó sobornar y, precisamente por ello, siempre tuvo problemas con sus compañeros de profesión y se vio expuesto a situaciones muy peligrosas.
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Esta película narra la batalla de Sutjeska (mayo 1943) - la más dura en la que participaron los partisanos yugoslavos, que fueron el principal movimiento de resistencia en la lucha contra las fuerzas del Eje en los Balcanes durante la II Guerra Mundial.
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Azize is a young hunchback woman who lives in a tiny coastal town with her father. Due to her appearance, she suffers from the constant ridicule and bullying of people and often feels rejected as a consequence. One day, a blind violin player comes to the town and Azize’s life changes forever.
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Philip M. Santore es secuestrado junto a dos personalidades: un cónsul y un agregado diplomático. ¿Quién es ese hombre, "experto en comunicaciones", que ha trabajado en varios países de Iberoamérica, en los que poco después se han producido rebeliones que han llevado al poder a militares extremistas?
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Infantryman Jean Froissard is sentenced to two years in Biribi Military Prison in North Africa. He seems to get along, but as incompetence, corruption and sadism of his superiors (which include sexual abuse of the prison inmates) force him and others into rebellion. Court martial ensues ...
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Tras la caída de la ciudad de Troya en manos de los ejércitos aqueos, las mujeres troyanas deberán afrontar el doloroso hecho de ser convertidas en esclavas y trasladadas a las cortes de los príncipes griegos.
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A girl, whose father is from Greece, studies ancient art in France. The film was made for television but never broadcast for political reasons related to its portrayal of Greeks. A work print was screened in Belgium in 1971, and the film is now available in reconstructed form.
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En un país regido por una corrupta democracia, donde el gobierno utiliza a la Policía y al Ejército para erradicar cualquier amenaza izquierdista, un diputado de la oposición es asesinado en plena calle cuando acababa de presidir un mitin de carácter pacifista. De la investigación del caso se encarga un joven magistrado consciente de que se trata de un crimen político cometido por dos sicarios a sueldo. Al mismo tiempo, un ambicioso periodista se servirá de métodos poco ortodoxos para acumular pruebas que inculpen a varios militantes de un partido de extrema derecha, los cuales, a su vez, atribuyen la responsabilidad del atentado a altos cargos de la policía y del ejército.
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A sad story about a series of tragic events which happened in Greece during the seventies.
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The engineer Ambrus has been suspended in his job because he publicly called the attention of the customers to a construction mistake of some goods designed to be exported. His immediate boss learns the news on a business trip to Paris. He meets his old friend Lendvay, an emigrant from Hungary, and his French wife in a cellar bar. After their talk Benkő starts seeing things in a different perspective. When he returns home, he decides to take a stand for Ambrus against Ferenczi, the general director, despite his wife's and the old director's advice.
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La vida en una alejada isla griega cambia para siempre cuando dos cargas atómicas caen accidentalmente de un avión de la OTAN. El gobierno trata de recuperar su carga, sin causar alarma, por lo que envía agentes disfrazados de inversionistas en la búsqueda de un lugar para construir un resort. Unos lugareños encuentran una de las bombas y creyendo que oculta un tesoro, despliegan todo su ingenio para tratar de abrirla. Mientras tanto, los veraneantes, ignorantes del peligro se dedican a bailar y divertirse al ritmo de una música frenética. Para no despertar sospechas, los agentes del gobierno también organizan su propia fiesta. En la playa empiezan a aparecer peces muertos.
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A Bullet Through the Heart (French: Une balle au cœur, Greek: Μια σφαίρα στην καρδιά) is a 1966 Franco-Greek film directed by Jean-Daniel Pollet. Francesco, a young Sicilian aristocrat, scars an aging gangster who has set out to take away his property. The gangster vows to obtain vengeance, and Francesco is forced to flee across Greece with his girl friend, pursued by his antagonist's vicious henchmen.
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Un convencional escritor inglés, de viaje en Creta por un asunto de herencias, ve como su vida cambia para siempre cuando conoce a Zorba Alexis, un hombre sencillo.
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Historia policiaca en la cual un hombre convence a su mujer de intentar hacerse con el dinero del seguro de vida de ella. (FILMAFFINITY)
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This puzzling experimental film is written and directed by Raymond Rouleau, who uses effects like changing color tones and masks to put across a drama within a dance drama. The set is a sound stage and the actors in this film are dancers on the stage, performing a mime-ballet derived from one particular legend. Both the enacted legend and the actual events affecting the dancers are parallel. The lead dancer Isa (Ludmila Tcherina) is still nursing her wounds after her first love left her to stand alone at the altar. Now one of the dancers wants to expand his relationship with Isa -- and soon after, the cad who jilted her suddenly shows up again. Tragedy follows closely behind.
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Adaptación de la tragedia griega "Electra" de Eurípides. Tras una victoriosa campaña en la guerra de Troya regresa a Argos el rey Agamenón. Durante su ausencia su esposa Clitemnestra, madre de Electra y Orestes, se ha enamorado del cruel Egisto, conviertiéndole en su amante, y entre ambos preparan el asesinato del noble monarca...
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Fedra es la esposa de Thanos, un millonario armador griego que antes estuvo casado con una mujer inglesa con la que ha tenido un hijo, Alexis, que vive en Londres, lejos del padre. Cuando Thanos se entera que Alexis ha dejado sus estudios, ruega a Fedra que viaje a Inglaterra para persuadir al joven de sus planes. Fedra no quiere viajar, porque sabe que el muchacho siente aversión por ella, aunque finalmente cederá ante la insistencia de su marido. El encuentro es muy distinto al imaginado: ambos simpatizan súbitamente y pronto serán presas de una violenta pasión.
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The stories of poor people living in a neighborhood in Athens and their difficulties.
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Tabitha, que siempre fue una mascota dócil, afable y devota, adopta todas las características de un animal feroz después del asesinato de su ama. Los tres culpables quedan atrapados por el poder del gato y cada uno alcanzará muertes prematuras de horribles proporciones sin que nadie pueda resolver el misterio que rodea su brutal muerte.
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Creta, 1944. Un grupo de partisanos comandados por el Capitán Stanley Moss y el Mayor Patrick Leigh Fermor secuestran al general alemán Karl Kreipe y lo trasladan a El Cairo. (FILMAFFINITY)
