The Comet Rimbaud Passing Over Cyprus

In 1975 in Greece, a high school student discovered the French poet Arthur Rimbaud from a song by Manos Hadjidakis and the poet Nikos Gatsos. Later on, his interest for the “bad boy” of French literature extended beyond the poet’s work, to his turbulent personal life, to his first period of wandering(1875-1876), when Rimbaud tried to come to Greece to work on an island “under the beautiful Aegean sky.” From December 1978 to May 1879 Rimbaud stayed in Cyprus, where he worked as a supervisor for a French construction company at a quarry in the province of Larnaca and after that, from March to July 1880, he also worked as a supervisor for the construction of the summer villa of the English governor on Mount Troodos.
Screening Schedule

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Script: Costas Dandinakis
Cinematography: Dominique Taupin
Editing: Maria Gerakaki
Sound: Christophe da Costa
Production: Center for the Performing Arts
Producers: Costas Dandinakis
Format: DigiBeta Color-B&W
Production Country: Greece-Cyprus
Production Year: 2014
Duration: 53
Contact: Costas Dandinakis costasdandinakis@gmail.com

Costas Dandinakis

Filmography

(selected)
1984 The Βuilders (short)
1986 Gavdos (short doc.)
1987 Health Card (short)
1988 Post Μodern Τimes (short)
2001 Greeks in Corsica (doc.)
2009 Lorca Inside Me
2010 Channel of Love (fiction)
2011 Cretan Turks in Halicarnassus
2012 Mari Naxakis, the Art of Finger Lace in Crete
2014 The Comet Rimbaud Passing over Cyprus