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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Rare film material discovered in the basement of the renowned photographer Takis Tloupas at his home in Larissa, is a real treasure. The discovery gave the director the impetus to search for the man and his work. Guided by Tloupas’ daughter Vania, the crew record his artistic course, while at the same time forming an anthropogeography of Thessaly of the past century.
SCREENPLAY: Calliope Legaki
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Odysseas Pavlopoulos
EDITING: Xenophon Latinakis
SOUND: Xanophon Latinakis, Stelios Michailidis
AWARDS
Official Selection
REVIEWS
The son of the Larissa carpenter and pioneering socialist Giorgos Tloupas, Takis Tloupas left behind a vast and culturally valuable archive of approximately 100,000 photographs, taken from the 1950s through the 1980s.
These images document, with rare artistic sensitivity the post-war reality of the Thessalian countryside and its people, serving as a documentary of an entire era, the aura of which documentary filmmaker Calliope Legaki seeks to capture through her lens.
Guiding the director are unpublished cinematic materials shot by Takis Tloupas himself and the vivid narration of his daughter Vania, thus opening up a poignant dialogue between past and present, transcending the lazy framework of a simple cine-portrait.
Christos Mitsis – Athinorama