Out of the Past - KVIFF 60/80 / To homa vaftike kokkino / Greece 1965
Besides being an unexpected Greek contribution to the Western genre, director Vasilis Georgiadis’s sweeping historical epic Blood on the Land is also a sophisticated parallel to the biblical Parable of the Prodigal Son or Odysseus’s voyage home. Set in the scorching mountains of Thessaly, the film centers on a feud between irreconcilable brothers from a landowning family and the local peasants’ growing resistance against their feudal oppressors, which escalates into violent conflict. This critical and commercial success was released just before the rise of the anti-leftist military junta, which unjustly condemned it to oblivion.
Tomáš Hubáček
124 min / Black & white, 35 mm
Director Vasilis Georgiadis
/ Screenplay Nikos Foskolos
/ Dir. of Photography Nikos Dimopoulos
/ Music Mimis Plessas
/ Sound Mikes Damalas
/ Editor Vasilis Syropoulos
/ Art Director Markos Zervas
/ Production Damaskinos-Mihailidis
/ Cast Nikos Kourkoulos, Mary Hronopoulou, Giannis Voglis, Faidon Georgitsis, Zeta Apostolou, Notis Peryalis
Vasilis Georgiadis. Selected filmography: Experts on the Football Field (Oi assoi tou gipedou, 1956), The Red Lanterns (Ta kokkina fanaria, 1963), Blood on the Land (To homa vaftike kokkino, 1965), Girls in the Sun (Koritsia ston ilio, 1968), That Summer… (Ekeino to kalokairi..., 1971), Dubious Agent (Synomosia sti Mesogeio, 1975).
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