While the classical play MEDEA by Euripides is performed on stage, young people on the streets of Athens fight against a state that steals all their opportunities. In associative form, the film interweaves the ancient myth of a mother who kills her children with images of violent street protests and lines from Anne Frank's diary. Six solo dancers - including an extraordinary Maria Kousouni as Medea - in expressive close-ups, in a mixture of classical ballet and modern expressive dance, interwoven with images of stone-throwing youths, police officers ready for action, figures from another, bleak world that has taken over everyday reality. "From the associative and music-led montage of dance footage with images of tender and angry youths, a cinematic, identity-forming national anthem emerges about contemporary events, retelling the myth in crisis." (artechock)
The Greek composer and national hero Mikis Theodorakis settles accounts on stage with a society that robs its children of their future.
While the classical play MEDEA by Euripides is performed on stage, young people on the streets of Athens fight against a state that steals all their opportunities.
In associative form, the film interweaves the ancient myth of a mother who kills her children with images of violent street protests and lines from Anne Frank's diary.
Six solo dancers - including an extraordinary Maria Kousouni as Medea - in expressive close-ups, in a mixture of classical ballet and modern expressive dance, interwoven with images of stone-throwing youths, police officers ready for action, figures from another, bleak world that has taken over everyday reality.
"From the associative and music-led montage of dance footage with images of tender and angry youths, a cinematic, identity-forming national anthem emerges about contemporary events, retelling the myth in crisis." (artechock)