The Magic in People: Broken Greek

Tο μαγικό των ανθρώπων: Με σπασμένα ελληνικά

  #migration   #portrait

Nassia speaks, sings, cries; all the above in broken Greek, in a language peppered with grammar mistakes that reveal savage truths. Nassia recalls and reminisces how she left her husband in Moldavia, a man who used to drink and hit her and then ask her “why are you trembling? I haven’t begun hitting you yet.” Nassia leaves Moldavia to save herself. When it doesn’t drive you wild, poverty and violence can transform you into an angel. A life’s worth nothing; and nothing’s worth as much as a single life.

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Direction: Penny Panayotopoulou
Script: Penny Panayotopoulou, Kallia Papadaki
Cinematography: Dimitris Katsaitis
Editing: Aggelos Aggelopoulos
Sound: Pavlos Kosmidis
Producers: Penny Panayotopoulou
Format: DCP
Color: Color
Production Country: Greece
Production Year: 2020
Duration: 43΄
Contact: Jenny Vafakou, programtv@ert.gr

Penny Panayotopoulou

Filmography

2002 Hard goodbyes my father (fiction)
2013 September (fiction)
2019 The Broken Memory and Poetry’s Sheltering Sky (short)
2020 Broken Greek (short)