MEDITERRANEAN STORIES
  • Screenplay: Stelios Haralambopoulos.
  • Íarration: Gerassimos Skiadaressis.
  • Cinematography: Yiannis Varvarigos.
  • Sound: Marinos Athanassopoulos.
  • Music: Nikos Kypourgos.
  • Producer : Thanos Lambropoulos.
  • Production: Periplïus, AMIP (France), Greek Film Centre, Greek Public Television, TV 10 Angers, Lumiere Television (Cyprus).
  • 35 mm Colour 77'
SYNOPSIS

Images of the Mediterranean made with oil, bread and wine. A single meal, encompassing the history, geography, economy, climate, civilization and peoples of the Mediterranean. For centuries, the olive, the vine, and the wheat have been sunning themselves in this vast, Internal Sea. Nearby, threshing floors, oilpresses, windmills, and wine-presses, traces of a centuries old architecture. Dietary habits, methods of production and daily routines combine with the natural and structured environment to form the cultural body of what is the most interesting of all potential birthplaces of the human race. The Mediterranean becomes a sea of convergence and encounter, which, however, does not overlook the dynamics of dissimilarity, allowing space to both the innovative and the traditional, and, above all, insisting on holding a feast after the grapes have been picked off the vine, after the wheat has been harvested, after the olives have been gathered.

Stelios Haralambopoulos

Biography
He was born in Athens, in 1956. He studied at the Stavrakos Film School and, at the same time, he attended the School of Economic and Commercial Sciences. He pursued postgraduate studies in economics at Paris II, while also auditing film seminars at Paris X University. He is a co-founder of the production company Periplous. His articles on film have been published in various magazines.

SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY
1987 The Stroll (short film)
1991 Athens: Two Friends, Two Actors (short film)
1993 The Moment Time Was Suspended (documentary)
1995 Patmos (documentary)
1996 Hades
1999-2000 Mediterranean Stories (documentary)

FILM TITLE SCREENING THEATER DATE
MEDITERRANEAN STORIES A' CINE PROVLITA 4 Saturday 11/11, 15:00
MEDITERRANEAN STORIES B' OLYMPION É Sunday 12/11, 13:30
MEDITERRANEAN STORIES C' CINE PROVLITA 4 Monday 20/11, 12:00


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