35 minutes – 2017 – short documentary, history
NIKOS THEODOSIOU
Nikos Theodosiou was born in Athens in September 1946.
He studied cinema in Athens and afterwards the Dictatorship in 1967, he continued in Paris. There he attend the seminars of Jean Rouch on documentary, of Henri Langlois on the history of cinema, and Mark Ferro «Cinema and society».
He remained in Paris until 1974. Back in Greece he involved with cinema, journalism, photo reportage, radio, literature, and historical research. Until now 12 of his books have been published and he has directed more than 25 films.
He is:
– founding member of Youth Plan (Team of authors for the audiovisual expression of young people) and person in charge for the educational programs.
– member of three-member committee of Olympia International Film Festival for Children and Young people
– artistic director of Camera Zizanio.
– founding member of Greek Documentary Network
In 1933, two years after the establishment of democracy in Spain, Louis Buñuel travels to Las Hurdes to shoot the most controversial documentary in film history. Nobody knows when and under what circumstances people were forced to settle on this massif. An isolated place, harsh and barren. Hidden in the mountains and lost for centuries for the official history When history finally discovered them, didn’t know in which historical context to integrate the They didn’t hesitate to tag them as “the shame of Spain”. There, battles were fought between myth and reality, hypocrisy and truth, objective and subjective, cinema and itself. Who won? If you want to see the battle that continues, the ruthless game of people with their story, you have to go to Las Hurdes.
CREDITS
DIRECTOR: Nikos Theodosiou
SCREENPLAY: Nikos Theodosiou
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Nikos Theodosiou, Fernando Alkala
SOUND: Giannis Tsiolakis
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