CALLIOPE LEGAKI
Calliope Legaki is a screenwriter and director. She was born in Piraeus, studied at the School of Philosophy of the University of Athens, and worked for a period as a philologist. At the same time, she studied film and television at the Stavrakos School, and since 2000, she has been involved in short films and documentaries. She has also attended acting classes and creative writing workshops. She collaborates regularly with producer Maria Gentekou and the production company Portolanos Films. Her films have been screened in Greek cinemas and on Greek television and won Awards and Distinctions at Greek and international festivals.
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A restless and inquisitive spirit, a foe of academics and the establishment, Petropoulos was the first folklorist in Greece who dealt with social outcasts and described people and situations ignored by his country’s official history.
He lived close to to Rebetika singers, bums, street-urchins, whores and homosexuals, prisoners and underground people who became the heroes of his books: The Brothel, Kaliarda (an Etymological Dictionary of Greek Homosexuals’ Slang), The Handbook of the Good Thief, The History of the Condom, The Rebetika Songs, The Holy Hashish, and others.
In this documentary, all these people meet in front of our camera. Their testimonies about their life and their relationship with the writer; join Petropoulos’ confessions, who was persecuted and sentenced several times for his writings.
CREDITS
SCREENPLAY: Calliope Legaki
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Yannis Missouridis
EDITING: Elias Demetriou
MUSIC: Nikos Papadogoulas
SOUND: Antonis Galatis, Costas Varympopiotis, Yorgos Vassiliou
NARRATION: Yorgos Kendros
AWARDS
THESSALONIKI INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL
Official Selection
REVIEWS