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Director
Penny Panayotopoulou
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Script
Penny Panayotopoulou
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Producer
GREEK FILM CENTRE, PENNY PANAYOTOPOULOU
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Language
Greek
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Colour
Colour
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Genre
Poetic
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Format
16 mm
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Summary
A boy wanders among the trains in a depot. A young man is traveling and the boy asks him to follow him. An elderly woman has transformed her house into a train carriage and talks to her husband who died years ago. El Dorado is what we constantly seek and never find. It’s a dream and perhaps that’s why it’s so real. The boy and the young man play on the banks of a lake and find an old car half-buried in the sand of some beach. They could even continue their journey with this means of transportation. The elderly woman in her train carriage-home continues her own journey to the past.
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Cinematography
Aggelos Viskadourakis
Editor
Giorgos Triadafyllou
Production Manager
Nikos Fatouros
Sound
Nikos Achladis
Dimitris Athanasopoulos
Make-up
Alicia Romero
Assistant Director
Christoforos Georgoutsos
Audio-Visual Labs
Film Post-production
Sound mixing
Thanasis Arvanitis
Music Composer
Μουσικά Κομμάτια
Ακούγονται αποσπάσματα μουσικής από διάφορους καλλιτέχνες και συλλογές:
Contributors
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Actors
Thodoris Polyzonis
Nikiforos Giotis Annita Moraitou Iro Kyriakaki |
Eldorado is the fabled city of gold in South America. The name is heard at some point on the television set of the elderly lady on the train coach who watches the trains drive past and through her wish to travel to ‘another city’ essentially announces the end of her own journey.
Penny Panayiotopoulou gradually immerses us in her strange, dreamy world and, through highly contrasted images and off-screen readings of excerpts from short stories by Dylan Thomas, she takes us on a journey that may have never started.
Film Critic
Thessaloniki Film Festival (Greece) 1988
- Best Short Fiction Film Award
Hellenic Ministry of Culture Quality Awards 1988
- Quality Award for Short Fiction Film
