Prison Blues

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Prison Blues

PRISON BLUES

1 hour 16 minutes – 2023 – Documentary

A road documentary in the spirit of a Western, in which six friends at odds, carry their scars and virtues, and under the pretext of the director’s obsession with Johnny Cash, travel around the country to the film Village Potemkin in prisons and institutions. Their route inside a caravan will be full of unexpected stops and encounters.

DIRECTOR: Dominikos Ignatiadis
SCREENPLAY: Dominikos Ignatiadis
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Thanos Liberopoulos, Vasilis Kalemos
EDITING: Stelios Zoidis
MUSIC: Dinos Tselis
SOUND: Costas Fylaktides

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