Lena Kitsopoulou

Athanasios Diakos: The comeback

I felt like a stranger among the Turks, so I leapt through  the centuries,
but I feel like a stranger here, too, I’ve just changed the scenery.
 
Lena Kitsopoulou boldly transforms Athanasios Diakos, one of the bravest heroes of the 1821 Greek War of Independence, into a symbol for the anti-heroic reality of Greece in 2012. Whisked away from the scene of his impaling by a deus ex machina , our hero is transported through time along with his betrothed, Kroustallo, to contemporary Athens. Brought face to face with the contradictions and the comedy of the present, the one-time martyr can no longer bring himself to lay down his life for his country.
 
No admittance to children
 
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Duration 1 hour and 45 minutes

Peiraios 260

  • 14/07/2012 at 21:00
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