- A Greek filmmaker plans to shoot a film, following the footsteps of the Greek revolutionary Rigas Feraios. While visiting the cemetery, a small crowd of ghosts of the 18th century personalities decides to follow his path.
- A Greek filmmaker finds himself in Trieste, Italy, where he plans to shoot a film, following the footsteps of the Greek revolutionary Rigas Feraios around Europe in the Age of Enlightment. While visiting the Greek Orthodox cemetery, a small crowd of ghosts of the 18th century personalities decides to follow his path. Are these characters figments of the director's imagination or are they real phantoms who cross path with him? What is happening to all these ghost characters travelling through centuries? What do the European movements for liberty, independence and democracy can teach us? Furthermore what do Western societies have to offer today in the matter of freedom? A modern comedy based on historic events, a film that connects revolution and treachery of the past and present times.
- A Greek filmmaker finds himself in Trieste, Italy, where he plans to shoot a film, following the footsteps of the Greek revolutionary Rigas Feraios around Europe in the Age of Enlightment. While visiting the Greek Orthodox cemetery, a small crowd of ghosts of the 18th century personalities decides to follow his path. Are these characters figments of the director's imagination or are they real phantoms who cross path with him? What is happening to all these ghost characters travelling through centuries? What do the European movements for liberty, independence and democracy can teach us? Furthermore what do Western societies have to offer today in the matter of freedom? A modern comedy based on historic events, a film that connects revolution and treachery of the past and present times.
Director's note I was born in Athens in a neighborhood where all the streets were named after Philhellenes, such as Satovriàndou Str named after Chateaubriand. My mother's work was at Koraìs Str, opposite the University of Athens, where the imposing statue of Rigas Feràios stood. When I first arrived in Trieste I rediscovered the period before the Greek Revolution, a period rich in ideas, revolutionary movements and turbulence that led to the 18th century revolutions and the creation of nation states. It was interesting to discover how the Greeks of Trieste participated the events that reinforced the notion of this city as a crossroads not only of trade but also and above all of the circulation of ideas. I was wondered what the phantoms of revolutions and great social changes would have to tell us nowadays. A story about victory? About disappointment? Maybe both...
The narrative will be non linear, kaleidoscopic and polyphonic. It will mix characters from the past (fictitious), characters from the present (real) and ghosts of the eighteenth-century personalities with poetic narrative approach. Instead of reproducing stereotypical images, we will follow them in their journey in the backrooms of History full of irony, dark humor, and deep emotions.
We intend to tell the story through small, insignificant details as love letters, unpaid bills, unfinished portraits, pending ideas, that emphasize the humane aspect of the narrative and the surrealistic paths that life can take.
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