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Kalokerines Astrapes

Summer Lightning
Nicos Ligouris
2004 Germany; Greece 80 minutes Greek

In a Cretan village, a small hotel forgotten by tourists. For years, the family of owners have been photographing the same seascape in the obstinate hope that one day they will capture summer lightning, their own “green ray”. But then the guests arrive-those strange, hurried, fickle beings… the tourists who have transformed an entire region. At the end of the season, the family put away the parasols and return to their olive trees. Next summer, they will set up the tripod and the camera in the same spot, facing the sea.

Nicos Ligouris

Cineaste et critique, il est ne en 1952 a Athenes. Il ecrit dans la revue Synchronos Kinimatographos fondee en 1970 par Theo Angelopoulos. Il vit a Berlin. Il a realise, notamment, les deux fictions : Omixli Kato Apo Ton Ilio (Brouillard sous le soleil), 1980 et Herz aus Stein (Coeur de pierre), 1994 et de nombreux portraits de cineastes (Theo Angelopoulos, Paul Vecchiali, Alexandre Sokourov, Dimos Avdeliodi.

Production :
Nicos Ligouris; Jost Hering Filme
Distribution :
Nicos Ligouris
Editing :
Stergios Mountsakis; Nicos Ligouris
Sound :
Stergios Mountsakis
Photography :
Nicos Ligouris

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