Mikis Teodorakis

An educational film about the Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis is intended for students of the 5th grade in the course of the subject "Music". The film is assembled from film materials. Landscapes of Greece, Mediterranean Sea, highlands. Acropolis of Athens. One of the streets, a square in Athens. Visitors at the tables of a street cafe. A passer-by on the street, a girl is reading a newspaper. Busy city street. Doves at the fountain. The car is driving along a mountain road. A road sign near the mountain village. A peasant woman leads a donkey with luggage. The dilapidated buildings of the concentration camp on the island of Makronisos. Chronicle footage of the 1960s-1980s: young composer M. Teodorakis composes music; M. Theodorakis plays the piano and sings (sinhr.); M. Theodorakis on the balcony of the house; M. Theodorakis surrounded by guards; M. Theodorakis with his family in Moscow (1970); the meeting of M. Theodorakis in France; Theodorakis in the ranks of the demonstrators; M. Theodorakis in the studio listening to the recording of the "General Song", M. Theodorakis at the conductor's stand at the rehearsal of the orchestra and chorus. Newsreel footage of the Second World War (1942-1944): Greek partisans carry the wounded on a stretcher; residents of one of the settlements meet partisans on the road.

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1987