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Director
Savvas Karydas
Script
Savvas Karydas
Producer
PARODOS FILM, GREEEK FILM CENTRE, ALEXIS PEZAS, IMAGE LIGHT
Year
1999
Duration
18'
Language
Greek
Colour
Colour
Genre
Drama
Source

Based on America – America, a short story by Sotiris Dimitriou

Format
S16 mm
Summary
‘Tzortzis’, a middle-aged man working as a dustman for Athens municipal authorities has been stretching his colleagues’ patience telling over and over – without convincing anyone – his well-worn story of how he’d accidentally got to act in Elia Kazan’s film America, America and how he’d met the director. When a new copy of the film comes out in cinemas, he’s offered a chance to prove his claims, as well as measure himself up against the life he never got to live…
Cinematography
Giannis Drakoularakos
Editor
Alexis Pezas
Production Manager
Nikos Nikoletos
Music Composer
Marios Strofalis
Set Designer
Dimitris Kadas
Costume Designer
Dimitris Kadas
Sound
Giannis Charalabidis
Booman
Giorgos Papageorgiou
Make-up
Katerina Kavadatou
Assistant Director
Nansy Kokolaki
Audio-Visual Labs

CINEMAGIC LTD


Sound mixing
Kostas Varybopiotis
Music Composer

 


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Contributors

Executive Producer - Art Director
GIANIS KARAPIPERIDIS
1st Assistant Camera
GIORGOS PAPANDRIKOPOULOS
2nd Assistant Camera
PANAGIOTIS VASSILAKIS
Script Supervisor
NANSY KOKOLAKI
Production Assistant
ANASTASSIA DOUKA
Prop Master
VASSILIS KOUTSOUKOS
Lighting Technician
GIANIS PAPADIMITRIOU
Grip / Dolly Grip  
KAROLOS STERMI
Sound Editing by
IRO VRETZAKI
Production Accountant
ATHINA MAROULI
Production Secretary
LIA VASSILIOU
Titles / Opticals
MANOLIS SAKADAKIS
Colour Correction
NIKOS KATOUFAS
Negative Cutter
NIKOS ADAMOPOULOS
Telecine
APOSTOLIS ARCHONTAS
Post-production
AVID, FANTASSIA OPTIKOAKOUSTIKI
Film Stock by
KODAK


Actors
Giorgos Armenis
Elpida Prooudaki
Michalis Giannatos
Adonis Mobaitzis
Dimitris Palpanis
Vasilis Pavris
Dimitris Koutsiabasakos
Presentation

America. So near and yet so far away; forever the place of unfulfilled dreams.’ It’s an apt way of defining the essence of this film, in the words of its director, Savvas Karydas. The wretched street sweeper who remembers having played a bit part in the film America, America, by Elia Kazan, embodies the hope and chimera of success in the land of plenty. The drama is a hair’s breadth away from fulfilment. Yiorgos Armenis, a richly mature, substantial presence, contributes to the film more than a tender study of morals and manners.

 



Giannis Bakogiannopoulos
Film Critic
Festival
Drama Short Film Festival (Greece) 1999 Wurzburg Film Festival (Germany) 1999 Nuremberg International Film Festival (Germany) 2000 Larissa Mediterranean Festival of New Filmmakers 2000 Algarve International Film Festival (Portugal) 2001
Awards

Hellenic Ministry of Culture State Cinema Awards 1999
  • Second Prize for Short-length Fiction Film
 
Wurzburg Film Festival (Germany) 1999
  • Main Post Award
 
Nuremberg International Film Festival (Germany) 2000
  • First Prize “Ulysses”  
 

Algarve International Film Festival (Portugal) 2001

  • Critics Award
 
Short Film Festival in Drama (Greece) 1999
  • Best Leading Actor Award
  • Best Sound Award
 
Larissa Mediterranean Festival of New Filmmakers 2000
  • Second Prize for Short-length Fiction Film «Silver Horse»
  • Kodak Award
  • Greek Filmakers Guild (ΕΕΣ) Award
 


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