Archive of films Pink / Roz

Greece
2006, 90 min

Section: Another View
Year: 2007

A film by Greek director Alexandros Voulgaris, who also plays the leading role, Roz is a meditation on the fear which accompanies life’s collisions. Vassilis Galis, whose mother abandoned him in childhood, writes letters to her in which he tries to express all the things weighing heavily on his soul.

Synopsis

“Pink is a film about someone’s thoughts,” says the director. We are all afraid of something when face-to-face with the realities of life. Vassilis Galis, who is raised only with his father and brother, is afraid of growing up. 11-year-old Snezana Tkachenko, the daughter of Ukrainian immigrants, is afraid of mutual understanding. Movie star Sakis is frightened by feelings, and Emily the Irish girl worries about starting from nothing. The greatest fear of Agne the teacher is life itself. And then there is the father, who is daunted by words, and the mother, who dreads returning. All of these people, whose fates intermingle at different stages of Vassilis’ life, leave their mark on him. Sometimes only superficially, sometimes in a profound way that is never to heal. In his letters to his mother, who abandoned the family and only left her son the dog, named Roz (Pink), Vassilis tries to express the anxiety, pain, feelings, and hope that accompany his childhood and maturation.

About the director

Alexandros Voulgaris (b. 1981, Athens) studied film direction, however instead of completing his studies he began working as an assistant. He also composed music for film, theatre, and clubs. His first short, The Right Moves (2000), was shown at the Independent Film and Video Festival in New York and at other festivals as well, and won an award from the Ministry of Culture at the film festival in Thessaloniki. The director’s feature debut Crying? (2003) was presented at the film festival in Toronto, the European Film Festival in Chicago, the Greek Film Week in Munich, and at the film festival in Thessaloniki. This was followed by an experimental film, The Toronto Secret (2005). Pink is the director’s second feature film, and in it he also plays the main role.

Contacts

Greek Film Centre
7 Dionissiou Areopagitou, 117 42, Athens
Greece
Tel: +30 210 367 850 0
Fax: +30 210 3648269
E-mail: [email protected]
www: www.gfc.gr

Alco Films Ltd.
13 Lefkados st., Polidrosso Maroussi, 151 26, Athens
Greece
Tel: +30 210 610 6490
Fax: +30 210 610 8510
E-mail: [email protected]

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About the film

Color, 35 mm

Section:	Another View

Director:	Alexandros Voulgaris
Screenplay:	Alexandros Voulgaris
Dir. of Photography:	Simos Sarketzis
Music:	The Boy
Editor:	Panos Voutsaras
Producer:	Pantelis Voulgaris
Production:	Alco Films Ltd.
Cast:	Alexandros Voulgaris, Romanna Lobats, Argyris Thanassoulas, Dimitris Veanos
Contact:	Greek Film Centre, Alco Films Ltd.

Guests

Liza Linardou

Film Institution Rep.