The time is for the songs and against the tanks - Mikis Theodorakis

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Movie
Original title The time is for the songs and against the tanks - Mikis Theodorakis
Country of production BR Germany
original language Greek
Publishing year 1974
length 44 minutes
Rod
Director Dietrich Schubert,
Klaus Salge
script Klaus Salge,
Dietrich Schubert
production Polytel International / Studio Hamburg on behalf of WDR Cologne
music Mikis Theodorakis
camera Yannis Delopoulos,
Takis Gerardis,
Emilios Konitsiotis,
Lakis Kyrilidis,
Stelios Ramakis
cut Georgia Zemann
occupation

Mikis Theodorakis, Maria Farandouri , Maria Dimitriadi, Andonis Kalojannis, Petros Pandis, Manolis Mitsias, Giorgos Dalaras and many more

The music film Time is for the songs and against the tanks - Mikis Theodorakis shows the first concert after the end of the Greek military dictatorship , which the composer Mikis Theodorakis was able to give in his home country on October 10, 1974.

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From April 21, 1967, the day of the military coup in Greece , to July 23, 1974, the day the Colonel Junta had to resign, there was dictatorship and oppression in Greece. Culturally, however, the people could not be silenced. And records and tapes with forbidden songs circulated secretly - especially during the seven years of repression .

The film shows excerpts from the first public concert that Mikis Theodorakis gave after his return from exile in France on October 10, 1974 with singers and musicians in the Karaiskakis Stadium , on the outskirts of Athens and near the port of Piraeus , in front of around 40,000 people could give. The audience greeted the composer and conductor emphatically, as they could - after the years of dictatorship - now openly sing along with "their" folk songs, which had become so powerfully useful in the cultural resistance to the rule of the junta .

The performance included songs from the cycles and oratorios : Axion Esti ; Mauthausen ; Songs for Andreas ; Canto General ; 18 songs of the bitter homeland ; Songs of struggle ; A hostage ; Romiossini .

Interview with Greek concert-goers: “During the dictatorship, the songs were trend-setting for all anti-dictatorial forces in our country. And that's why we come here today. ”Or:“ Politically, this music deals with those freedoms that have been withdrawn from us. The people try to express their feelings with the songs of Theodorakis. "

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(First broadcast :)

November 24, 1974, Westdeutscher Rundfunk Cologne (3rd TV program)

Remarks

TV version length: 44 minutes; Length of the theatrical version: 87 minutes (considered lost)

Technical specifications

Format: 16 mm, color, 1: 1.37

Synopsis

"The first people's concert after the dictatorship in Greece / Athens, October 10, 1974" (text overlay after the main title of the film)

Individual evidence

  1. "The Swallow", text: O. Elytis
  2. ^ "On these stairs", text: Iakovos Kambanellis
  3. "What You Once Were" and "The Noon"
  4. "Here the birds are silent"
  5. "Oropos"
  6. ^ "The smiling boy", text: B. Behan
  7. “When they shake hands” and “Soon the bells will ring again”, text: J. Ritsos

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