Nikos Karouzos – Poems on the tape recorder

Directed by Yannis Karpouzis
Written by Ilias Liatsopoulos – Andreas Vakalios

Logline                                                                                                                                                                                    In the midst of the economic crisis, a persistent researcher delves into the eventful life and the unexplored work of preeminent Greek modernist poet, Nikos Karouzos. Through photos, archives, super 8s, videotapes and memories, he travels back in time accompanying the poet from the traumatic postwar history of Greece to the Academy of Stockholm and all the way to the 1921 rebellion of Kronstadt in order to find a lost film footage.

Creative Documentary
Duration: 100 min
Greece
Completed February 2020

Funded by Greek Film Center and Hellenic broadcasting corporation.

Cast: Dimitris Katalifos
Director: Yannis Karpouzis
Writers: Andreas Vakalios, Ilias Liatsopoulos
Director of Photography: Yannis Kanakis, Yannis Karpouzis
Research: Ilias Liatsopoulos
Translations: Costas Koutsikouris
Editing: Leonidas Papafotiou
Original soundratck: Cleon Antoniou, Giannis Haroulis, Lefteris Andriotis
Sound: Costas Fylaktidis, 17 Poisoned Englishmen
Color Grading: Grigoris Arvanitis / authorwave

Left-wing and Christian, a hermit and an alcoholic, the damned poet Nikos Karouzos is the central figure of this hybrid-genre essay film. In order to piece together the poet’s life journey, a frustrated researcher takes us through the Aegean archipelago’s prison islands, the Swedish capital of Stockholm, the historical Russian island of Kronstadt, the “city of crisis” Athens, and across a vast archive of celluloid memories. A story about life and death; Greece’s troubled post-war history and the advent of Spring.