Olympia Festival honors director Takis Papayiannidis.
Director of short and feature films, documentaries and tv series, awarded in Greece and abroad. Founding member of Cultural Societies (Contemporary Cinema, Panhellenic Cultural Movement, Theatrical Organization "Filotechnon").Collaborator in magazines and newspapers (Contemporary Cinema, Orientations, Chroniko, TA NEA). He has taught Film Direction (theory and practice) at the "Lykourgos Stavrakos" Film School (1999-2016).
As part of the 26th Olympia Festival, his award-winning film, The Age of the Sea (1978) (1978).
Παρασκευή 8/12, 20:00 Cine Cinema
Η ηλικία της θάλασσας / The age of the sea
Ελλάδα / Greece, 120’, 1978
A mixture of documentary and fiction that brings into dialogue film documents of modern history with images of empty spaces, where the experiences of certain people evolve off-screen, reconstructing the struggles of the Greek people from 1917 to 1974. The film documents build a retrospective of the recent political history of Greece: establishment of the General Confederation of Greek Workers (1917), Asia Minor Catastrophe, Metaxas’ dictatorship, World War II, German occupation, Resistance, the events of December 1944 in Athens, British and American intervention, persecution, terrorism, the "democratic break" 1963-1965, the "abnormal period" 1965-1967 , the dictatorship, the Polytechnic uprising and the fall of the junta.
The film was awarded at the international festivals of Yerres, Leipzig and Thessaloniki film festival. Official participation in the international festivals of Berlin, Moscow and New York.
σκηνοθεσία / direction
Takis Papayiannidis
σενάριο / screenplay
Takis Papayiannidis
φωτογραφία / cinematography
Nikos Petanidis
μοντάζ / editing
Yorgos Triantafyllou
μουσική / music
Christodoulos Chalaris
ερμηνείες / cast
Kyriakos Katrivanos, Kitty Arseni, Kostas Kazakos, Aleka Paizi, Timos Perlegas, Stavros Xenidis, Yorgos Moschidis, Anna Vagena, Efi Roditi, Stamatis Fasoulis
English 
Greek