The More You Speak... the More You Cry

Three anthropologists, a historian, an islamist and a several Pomaks guide us trough the mountain range of Rhodope in the Balkans so that we may familiarize ourselves with the population of the Pomaks; their history, their culture, their problems, their fears and their hopes.The Pomaks live in the mountains of Rhodope, in Greece and Bulgaria, along the borders.Their language is southern Slavic and their religion is Muslim.Their origin has not been scientifically documented.They consider themselves to be Greeks, Bulgarians,Turks.There is a typical proverb:“Beware of the Turk’s shot, the Bulgarian’s beating and the Greek’s pencil,” because a shooting and a beating can be forgotten, but the pencil does not forget.
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Script: Dimitris Kitsikoudis, Scriptwriters: Periclis Hilas, Anastasia Balezdravou
Cinematography: Alkis Sotiriadis
Editing: Costis Antonopoulos, Serafim Kondos
Sound: Dimitris Yakouridis
Music: Periclis Hilas, Tasos Karakatsanis
Actors: Narration: Yannis Voglis, Yannis Karatzoyannis, Iosif Marinakis, Artemis Apostolopoulou
Production: Arcadia Digital
Producers: Alexis Vergetis, Dimitris Kitsikoudis
Format: 35mm Color
Production Country: Greece
Production Year: 2007
Duration: 75

Dimitris Kitsikoudis

He was born in Didymoticho, Evros prefecture in 1966. He studied Film Directing at the Stavrakos School. He has been working in cinema and TV since 1989 as assistant cameraman, cameraman, prop master, production director and mainly as assistant director. He is currently working as a director of TV productions.

Filmography

1993 Tai Chi (short doc.)
1995 The Excursion (short doc.)
1997 The Naxos of I. Kampanelis (short doc.)
2000 The Cakes of Hatred (short doc.)
2007 The More You Speak… the More You Cry (doc.)