The Thrushes Are Still Singing (1979)
"Ta kourelia tragoudane akoma..." (original title)

Five friends (representatives of the Fifties generation) now in their forties, get together after many years of silence. One shows up from jail, where he has been entering and exiting for ... See full summary »

Director:

Nikos Nikolaidis

Writer:

Nikos Nikolaidis

Stars:

Alkis Panagiotidis, Konstantinos Tzoumas, Rita Bensousan

5 wins.

Cast

Cast overview:
Alkis Panagiotidis	...	Alkis
Konstantinos Tzoumas	...	Konstantinos
Rita Bensousan	...	Rita
Hristos Valavanidis	...	Hristos (as Chris Valavanidis)
Dora Kalogridi	...	Dora
Gioula Kazoni	...	Thief
Maritina Passari
Antigoni Amanitou	...	Lady in White
Youla Anagnostou
Dimitris Politimos	...	Dimitris
Olia Lazaridou	...	Vera

Storyline

Five friends (representatives of the Fifties generation) now in their forties, get together after many years of silence. One shows up from jail, where he has been entering and exiting for years, the other comes from a series of "accidental" murders, another leaves his wife and kids, the fourth one is a wonderer, and the last one, the girl of the gang, comes from a lunatic asylum where she has been hiding for years... All of them are outcasts, tortured from barren love affairs, wounded from the deaths of their beloved friends and betrayed by the politics of their times. They hopelessly try to reconstruct the gang of their puberty, but the revolution is lost... Now, each in his own way, will progress into a journey of death, thus opening a new chapter in the history of their generation.

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Plot Keywords:

drums | raincoat | murder | audio recording | dancing | 

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Genres:

Adventure | Crime | Drama | Mystery

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Details

Country:

Greece

Language:

Greek

Release Date:

20 November 2005 (Greece)

Also Known As:

The Wretches Are Still Singing

Company Credits

Technical Specs

Runtime:

123 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Black and White Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

Athens Film Critics Association Best Picture Award.

User Reviews

another unique film by Greece's perhaps only director

Nikos Nikolaidis is a director unlike any other, here in Greece. His uncompromised, simple & cynical dialogues, his beautiful photography, extremity and obscenity, his weird "black" humour and somewhat ever present surrealism, all these make him my greatest. Greek cinema generally hasn't had many great moments for many reasons. Nikos Nikolaidis, uncompromised and unwilling to play "the big game" which he has been offered as a mainstream intellectual, for 30 years now and going he has been making powerful & controversial films that deserve more attention from serious cinema fans (both those who like the intellect and those who like it strange & bizarre!

"Ta kurelia tragudane akoma" , his second feature, a hymn to friendship & companion ship, is both cruel and funny, cynical and sweet, about people who have lost all hopes, a surreal tribute to the hopeless and pessimist 'betrayed' people. Neverless the film doesn't ever gets slow and remains quite unpredictable and interesting. All texts in Nikolaidis films are perhaps his best point.

This is a film that would probably be regarded as not appropriate for minors: while Nikolaidis doesn't glorify violence, there seem not to be any visible ethics or morality in his films, another reason he is regarded by some as 'anarchist' and 'angry' director.

SOMEONE, RELEASE THIS GREAT DIRECTOR WORLDWIDE !!!!!!! His site link here in IMDb is in English! Get the info!