Welcome to "Enchanted Summers and Dangerous Roads: Greek Cinema Now," at the Gene Siskel Film Center. You'll enjoy fine works by well-known directors like Nikos Perakis, Takis Papayannidis, Christos Dimas, Stamatis Tsarouchas, and up and coming director Layia Giourgou.
You will also enjoy a special presentation of Never on Sunday, the 1960 classic with Melina Mercouri - one of the international gems of classic Greek Cinema, in a newly struck print.
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The Chicago Greek Film Festival thanks Voula Georgakakou, Greek Film Center, Athens; Barbara Scharres and Marty Rubin, The Gene Siskel Film Center; Richard Straub, Lufthansa German Airlines; and Panos Chalvantzis, Dish Network for helping us make this series possible.
Enjoy the festival.
Harry Karahalios, Director
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164 North State Street, Chicago, IL 60601 Advance tickets will be available through Ticketmaster on May 30th |
The Cistern dir. Christos Dimas
Saturday, June 21 and Tuesday, June 24 at 8:00pm
2002, 35mm, 105 minutes
Starring:
Yota Festa, Themis Bazaka, Giorgios Marinos, Nena Menti, Christos Nomikos, Ersi Malikensou and Vana Rambota
This atmospheric coming-of-age drama, reminiscent of "Stand by Me", is set in the Athenian suburb of Elefsis during the early 1970s, the period of military rule and the Turkish invasion of Cyprus. The bittersweet story centers on a group of eleven-year-old boys who call themselves The Acrobats and earn their daredevil name by taking dangerous dives into a concrete water cistern. The boys' carefree lives parallel, and eventually intertwine with the more troubled sphere of the adults.