Days of 36 (1972)

Original title

Μέρες του '36

Directed by

Thodoros Angelopoulos

Genre

drama film, historical film

Country

Greece

Runtime

1h 45m

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 32 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

During the 1936 dictatorship in Greece, a prison hostage situation exposes the political repression and paranoia of the regime. The film focuses on unseen power struggles and whispered conversations behind closed doors.

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What happens

Days of '36 (Greek: Μέρες του '36, romanized: Méres tou '36) is a 1972 Greek dramatic independent underground art film directed by Theo Angelopoulos. Its title is a tribute to Constantine P. Cavafy. Filmed during the Regime of the Colonels, the film draws parallels between the regime and the dictatorship of Ioannis Metaxas, but it does so implicitly, in order to escape censorship. Angelopoulos elsewhere speaks of an "aesthetic of the unspoken." He points out that the most important things always happen out of the field of view, behind closed doors or on the phone. When something is said, it is only whispered. According to Angelopoulos, he called the film "the opposite of Z". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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