Post by manfromplanetx on Apr 9, 2021 1:37:01 GMT
Classic Greek cinema, do you have any recommendations, favorites ?
Το χώμα βάφτηκε κόκκινο, The Soil was Painted Red aka Blood on the Land (1966) Greek western drama directed by Vasilis Georgiadis.
Set in the rugged hinterland and on the vast plains of Thessaly in the early twentieth century, Blood on the Land tells a tale of feuding siblings within a noble farming family. Using an important historical backdrop, the epic drama incorporates elements of socialist realism with an underlying focus on the actual rural workers’ mobilizations at the time against the rich Thessalian landlords.
Director Georgiadis paints a vivid wild west portrait of rural Greece at the turn of the century. A solitary railway line is the only connection to the modern era and the outside world. The film opens as Odysseas, son of the largest landowner of the plain returns home, having fled after an earlier failed rural uprising. Odysseus from the first moments takes the sympathetic side of the farm workers conflicting sharply with his brother Rigas, who is brutal, predatory, and dictatorial. Rigas detests Odysseas for wanting to distribute their ancestral lands among the peasants…
What starts off as ideological warfare between Father and two brothers turns into bitter rivalry culminating in a guns-blazing finale over beautiful Eirini, strong and articulate she leads as spokesperson for the peasant workers.
Drawing on themes from Mexican Westerns and Greek classical literature the ambitious project was funded with a massive budget and cast with major stars. Critically acclaimed Blood on the Land became the cinematic landmark of its time, a pinnacle of classic Greek film.
Highlighted throughout are the magnificent rock formations of Meteora now included on the UNESCO World Heritage List. The formations in central Greece, located on the north-western edge of the Plain of Thessaly are host to incredible precipitously built complexes. The Eastern Orthodox monasteries were built atop as a refuge from Turkish raiders by Hermit monks in the fourteenth century.
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Το χώμα βάφτηκε κόκκινο, The Soil was Painted Red aka Blood on the Land (1966) Greek western drama directed by Vasilis Georgiadis.
Set in the rugged hinterland and on the vast plains of Thessaly in the early twentieth century, Blood on the Land tells a tale of feuding siblings within a noble farming family. Using an important historical backdrop, the epic drama incorporates elements of socialist realism with an underlying focus on the actual rural workers’ mobilizations at the time against the rich Thessalian landlords.
Director Georgiadis paints a vivid wild west portrait of rural Greece at the turn of the century. A solitary railway line is the only connection to the modern era and the outside world. The film opens as Odysseas, son of the largest landowner of the plain returns home, having fled after an earlier failed rural uprising. Odysseus from the first moments takes the sympathetic side of the farm workers conflicting sharply with his brother Rigas, who is brutal, predatory, and dictatorial. Rigas detests Odysseas for wanting to distribute their ancestral lands among the peasants…
What starts off as ideological warfare between Father and two brothers turns into bitter rivalry culminating in a guns-blazing finale over beautiful Eirini, strong and articulate she leads as spokesperson for the peasant workers.
Drawing on themes from Mexican Westerns and Greek classical literature the ambitious project was funded with a massive budget and cast with major stars. Critically acclaimed Blood on the Land became the cinematic landmark of its time, a pinnacle of classic Greek film.
Highlighted throughout are the magnificent rock formations of Meteora now included on the UNESCO World Heritage List. The formations in central Greece, located on the north-western edge of the Plain of Thessaly are host to incredible precipitously built complexes. The Eastern Orthodox monasteries were built atop as a refuge from Turkish raiders by Hermit monks in the fourteenth century.
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