Nikos Karouzos – Poems on a Tape Recorder (2021)

8.0/10 101 min Documentary

Overview

In the midst of the economic crisis, a persistent researcher delves into the eventful life and the unexplored work of preeminent Greek modernist poet, Nikos Karouzos. Through photos, archives, super 8s, videotapes and memories, he travels back in time accompanying the poet from the traumatic postwar history of Greece to the Academy of Stockholm and all the way to the 1921 rebellion of Kronstadt in order to find a lost film footage.

Cast

Dimitris Katalifos

Narrator

Yiorgos Ksenos

Interviewee

Titos Patrikios

Interviewee

Katerina Aggelaki Rooke

Interviewee

Tasos Goudelis

Interviewee

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