Macedonian Wedding

Μακεδονικός γάμος

Shot in Velvendo, Kozani, Takis Kanellopoulos’s first film is a short documentary on the traditional wedding customs of West Macedonia. The director’s poetic eye transforms an example of “ethnographic” cinema into a lyrical poem about people’s roots in an age-old world that is already lost. The film won Best Short Film at the 1st Greek Film Week and Best Film at the Belgrade Film Festival the following year.
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Direction: Takis Kanellopoulos
Script: Takis Kanellopoulos
Cinematography: Iakovos Pairidis
Producers: Panayotis Ηaratsaris
Format: 35mm
Color: B&W
Production Country: Greece
Production Year: 1960
Duration: 29΄
Contact: Kostas Kanellopoulos, info@kanelamps.gr

Takis Kanellopoulos

Takis Kanellopoulos was born in Thessaloniki in 1933 and died in 1990 of a heart attack. He was one of the first Greek directors to make films in Thessaloniki. He was honoured at the 7th Thessaloniki Film Festival in 1966, on the occasion of his film Excursion, for his contribution to raising the quality standards of the Festival. At the 1968 Thessaloniki Festival, Interlude won the Greek Film Critics Association Award for Best Director, while the same film was awarded Best Art Film of the Year, jointly with Vassilis Georgiadis’s Girls in the Sun. Kanellopoulos’s filmography consists of three shorts and seven feature films.

Filmography

1960 Macedonian Wedding (short doc)
1961 Thassos (short doc)
1962 Glory Sky
1966 Excursion
1968 Interlude
1969 Kastoria (short doc)
1972 The Last Spring
1975 Memories of a Sunday
1978 Romantic Note
1980 Sonia