Welcome to the third annual Greek Film Festival. Greek Cinema Now 2005 offers a gateway to the rich, complex culture of contemporary Greece through its lively and passionate cinema.
The Chicago Greek Film Festival thanks Barbara Scharres and Martin Rubin, The Gene Siskel Film Center; Voula Georgakakou and Efi Polydorou, the Greek Film Centre; and our sponsor, the Council of Hellenes Abroad, North and South America Region (SAE), for helping us make this event possible.
Enjoy the festival.
Harry Karahalios, Director
Gene Siskel Film Center The Interparking SELF-PARK, at 20 East Randolph, located between Wabash and State, offers Film Center patrons a discounted parking rate of $14. Patrons are required to show their ticket stub to receive the discount. |
Hazardous and Unhealthy dir. Antonis Papadopoulos
(Varea Anthiyiina)
Friday, May 13 and Tuesday, May 17 at 8:00 pm
2003, 35mm, 95 minutes
Starring:
Paschalis Tsarouchas
A sharp lesson on the power of myth over history is provided by this ironic drama about a seedy truck-driver stranded in a village whose most prominent feature is a statue of a heroic anti-Nazi partisan. The trucker realizes that the unknown martyr is in fact himself, but, when he tries to tell the locals, he finds that an idealized dead hero is often preferred to a clay-footed live one.