Fri, Feb 4, 2022
The story of the young author from the Greek island of Lesbos, who fought in three wars in seven years, and recorded, in a genuine and honest language, experiences that changed the form of the anti-war novel, writing about the "traumas" not only of the soldiers but also of those who stayed behind.
2022
The protagonists of the first great fiction trilogy by the greatest Greek storyteller, the daring and heretical M. Karagatsis, are made flesh in this episode, in which characters and scenes from his works are cinematically interwoven in his fictional imagination. The dramatized heroes of the most-read Greek prose author, those who inspired and defined his oeuvre and his penetrating gaze, reintroduce the viewer to his unbridled eroticism, his existential angst, and his sharp eye for prewar and postwar Greek society. A society with many faces, which the daring Karagatsis never hesitated to show up and deride, creating a relief fresco of the most real and most fully fleshed-out characters in Greek prose.