Days of '36(Méres tou '36)
Dir: Theo Angelopoulos
Greece, 1972, Greek, 108mins, 35mm
Cast: Giorgos Kiritsis, Christoforos Chimaras, Takis Doukakos
The darkening political landscape of 1936 sets the stage for drawing parallels with the 1970s for the first film in Angelopoulos’ “Trilogy of History”. In a Brechtian drama based on a real-life incident, a police informer accused of assassinating a trade unionist holds a politician hostage in his cell, leading to an absurd government crisis. Reconstructed in an oblique and elliptical narrative, the parody under an imposed silence denies everyone a clear picture, yet the high-angle long shots and the languorous 360-degree tracks and pans cast a sardonic eye on the ineptitudes of the bureaucrats and politicians, exposing an underlying truth beyond ambiguity.
Berlin International Film Festival: FIPRESCI Prize
Thessaloniki Film Festival: Best Director and Best Cinematography
Screening:
Online Screening
2022-02-18 (Fri) 00:00 -
2022-02-20 (Sun) 23:59
In-theatre Screening
Cancelled 2022-01-08 (Sat)
20:15Cancelled 2022-02-12 (Sat)
14:30
PREMIERE Elements (Venue)
Hong Kong Arts Centre Louis Koo Cinema (Venue)
HK Science Museum Lecture Hall
Hong Kong Film Archive
K11 Art House
The Metroplex
Festival Grand Cinema
the sky
MCL Telford Cinema
Tai Kwun
MOViE MOViE
CINE FAN ONLINE
EMP Cinemas iSQUARE (Venue)
M+ Cinema (Venue)
EMP Cinemas Times Square (Venue)
The Grand Cinema
Broadway Hollywood
Cine Moko
Chinese Subtitles
Category III
Post-screening discussion with the director
Director and/or actor(s) will meet the audience
Post-screening talk
Full House
Introduction