Two Greek cinema legends, one lost tape, 35 years of silence broken.
In the mid-80s, Aegokeros publishing house intended to publish a magazine about film and the theater. Theo Angelopoulos and Nikos Panayotopoulos had been chosen by the editorial board for the first issue. A summer evening at Angelopoulos house in the Mati area, Antonis Kokkinos and Yannis Soldatos recorded a three-hour interview between Theo and Nikos, within the frameworks set for them, in order to be included in the magazine. The interview brought to the fore their common course, even though completely opposite from one point onward. Thirty-five years later, the unpublished conversation has been found; both the tapes and the transcripts! This conversation stands as a valuable manifestation of the creators’ views regarding their own, until then, existing and future work, as well as a thorough insight into the New Greek Cinema, and into World Cinema in general.
Direction
Kokkinos and Soldatos let silence speak volumes
Editing
Seamless bridge between 1986 and now
Production
Archival resurrection as artistic act
Director
Yannis Soldatos
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Mati house where this was filmed would later burn in the 2018 wildfires—another layer of haunting preservation.
New Greek Cinema emerged under the junta; these two represented its split soul—political epic vs. intimate rebellion.
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