1821 at the Cinema

1821 at the Cinema (2021)

DocumentaryHistory

In 1821, in Cinema, he records the cinematic representations of the Revolution from the first decades of the 20th century. until the present day. Despite the fact that the Revolution of 1821 constitutes the founding act of the modern Greek state, as a subject matter it is underrepresented in national film production. This is one of the points on which the research looks, which simultaneously examines the periods of concentration of films on the subject of the Revolution or, respectively, the periods of its collective silence. The purpose of the documentary is to study the ideological discourse and the cinematic language of the films with the theme of 1821, in order to highlight the function of the cinema as a carrier of Public History and as a factor in shaping the collective historical consciousness.

Directors: Apostolos Karakasis, Eleftheria Thanouli.

Casts

	Constantine Markoulakis as Νarrator
	Jenny Karezi as (archive footage)
	Irene Papas as (archive footage)
	Dimitris Papamichael as (archive footage)
	Katia Dandoulaki as (archive footage)
	Andreas Barkoulis as (archive footage)
	Dionysis Papagiannopoulos as (archive footage)
	Nikos Kourkoulos as (archive footage)
	Georgia Vasileiadou as (archive footage)
	Aliki Vougiouklaki as (archive footage)
	Petros Fyssoun as (archive footage)
	Alekos Alexandrakis as (archive footage)
	Manos Vakousis as (archive footage)
	Sebastian Koch as (archive footage)
	Leonidas Kakouris as (archive footage)
	Maria Androutsou as (archive footage)
	Vasilis Tsikaras as (archive footage)
	Konstantinos Lagkos as (archive footage)
	Aliki Theodorides as (archive footage)
	Aimilios Veakis as (archive footage)
	Costas Moussouris as (archive footage)
	Stelios Tatasopoulos as (archive footage)
	Gelly Mavropoulou as (archive footage)
	Tzavalas Karousos as (archive footage)
	James Paris as (archive footage)

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