The poster of director Robiros Manthoulis’ first political movie
The screening of the movie “Face to Face” by Robiros Manthoulis in France marked the primary anti-junta occasion.
In 1966 the Robiros Manthoulis is getting ready to shoot his eighth movie. Having signed profitable documentaries (“The best energy”, “Of males and gods”) and business comedies (“The woman mayor”, “Fingers up, Hitler”), the director from Komotini decides to make his first political movie “within the broadest sense, nearly resistance” as he has mentioned. The “Head to head” it was filmed with the principles and aesthetics of the nouvelle vag, with music by Nikos Mamagakis. The central character is a poor professor (Kostas Messaris) who has a relationship with the daughter of a rich household (Eleni Stavropoulou), who’s destined to marry the scion of a overseas transport household. THE Manthoulis via his love tragedy (he wrote the script along with Costas Murselas) he tries to criticize the neo-enrichment of the rising center class but in addition the greed of the previous “fireplaces” of Greece. On the identical time, he satirizes the life mannequin of contemporary Athenians and blasts the contractors who dismantle the neoclassical buildings to be able to erect large blocks within the type of house buildings. On this pre-dictatorial actuality, the Manthoulis traces the decline of the financial and political elite that paves the way in which for the army oligarchy that can plunge the nation into darkness.
The movie escaped censorship as o Manthoulis he submitted a script from… one other of his motion pictures. On the 1966 Thessaloniki Pageant, he received the directing prize amid cheers from the younger viewers. The jury consisted of Yiannis Tsarouchis, Manos Hatzidakis, Elli Lampeti, Filopoimin Finos, Yiannis Bakoyannopoulos and Grigoris Grigoriou. Just a few months later, on April 21, 1967, it was carried out on the French pageant of Jerez. The tragic information of that day coming from Greece turns Manthoulis’ movie right into a prophetic one. What follows takes the type of the primary anti-Juntian occasion as dozens of journalists with cameras and microphones fill the room taking Manthoulis’ statements broadcast on a number of European radio stations. The director exiles himself in France and continues his anti-dictatorship wrestle from there, whereas his movie is in fact banned by the junta, which places it on its blacklist and on the identical time cancels his passport.
The movie was screened on Tuesday, June 11 on the Vox cinema at 21.00, whereas Ismini Daskaroli’s quick movie “Meals on the Desk” shall be preceded by a dialogue between movie critic Akis Kapranos, director Nikos Theodosiou and Ismini Daskaroli.
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