1821 at the Cinema

October. 14,2021      
Rating:
5.5
Trailer Synopsis Cast

In 1821, in Cinema, he records the cinematic representations of the Revolution from the first decades of the 20th century. until the present day. Despite the fact that the Revolution of 1821 constitutes the founding act of the modern Greek state, as a subject matter it is underrepresented in national film production. This is one of the points on which the research looks, which simultaneously examines the periods of concentration of films on the subject of the Revolution or, respectively, the periods of its collective silence. The purpose of the documentary is to study the ideological discourse and the cinematic language of the films with the theme of 1821, in order to highlight the function of the cinema as a carrier of Public History and as a factor in shaping the collective historical consciousness.

Constantine Markoulakis as  Νarrator
Jenny Karezi as  (archive footage)
Irene Papas as  (archive footage)
Dimitris Papamichael as  (archive footage)
Katia Dandoulaki as  (archive footage)
Andreas Barkoulis as  (archive footage)
Dionysis Papagiannopoulos as  (archive footage)
Nikos Kourkoulos as  (archive footage)
Georgia Vasileiadou as  (archive footage)
Aliki Vougiouklaki as  (archive footage)

Reviews

SpuffyWeb
2021/10/14

Sadly Over-hyped

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Pluskylang
2021/10/15

Great Film overall

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Hadrina
2021/10/16

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

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Hayden Kane
2021/10/17

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

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