YORGOS KORRAS - CHRISTOS VOUPOURAS
Yorgos Korras was born in Derveni in 1948. He studied philology and history at the University of Athens and film at the Stavrakos Film School. He worked as a film critic for newspapers and magazines, as a screenwriter, director, editor, and radio producer. He directed short films, feature films, and documentaries, often in collaboration with Christos Voupouras. Their work participated in festivals and received awards, including State Prizes.
Christos Voupouras was born in 1954 on the island of Lesvos and studied directing at the Stavrakos Film School. He has directed feature films and documentaries, often in collaboration with Yorgos Korras, and has authored three novels.
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A sadomasochistic relationship between Christos and Manolis, two army friends, evolves in the rural parental home of Christos, Greek countryside pathogenic behaviorism is depicted with surprisingly deliberate realism. Machismo, hatred, envy and the egotism of Christos and most of his family contrast with the sensuality, caring and rationality of Manolis who cannot cope with this malevolent environment without surrendering to its destructiveness.
CAST
Stelios Mainas
Toula Stathopoulou
Leonidas Nomikos
Stelios Pavlou
Sinda Stefanopoulou
Yorgos Giannopoulos
Stelios Pappas
Yannis Christoyiannis
Magda Tsaggani
CREDITS
DIRECTOR: Yorgos Korras, Christos Voupouras
SCREENPLAY: Yorgos Korras, Christos Voupouras
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Andreas Bellis
EDITING: Yorgos Korras, Christos Voupouras
MUSIC: Eleni Karaindrou
SETS: Damianos Zarifis
COSTUMES: Damianos Zarifis
SOUND: Nikos Achladis
AWARDS
THESSALONIKI FILM FESTIVAL
Best Supporting Actress (Toula Stathopoulou)
REVIEWS
The bourgeois homosexual of the film, who thinks he can find a refuge in the village of his
friend, whom he follows there, is nothing more than an interloper. However, the other half of the homosexual couple is also an intruder in his village. It is a lion’s den, where urban filth is reflected and multiplied. In Greece there is no longer a place to stand, neither in the urban center nor in the countryside. Greece is now a u-place, which however never had any serious utopia. He only had methodical lies. The desertions of the sensitive have just begun.
Vassilis Rafaelides – ETHNOS