Date & Time:
November 11th, 2023 at 10 am
Locations:
Cineplex, Laval
Centropolis
Cineplex Brossard Quartier Dix 30
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85h7MIVC-j0
YEAR:
2022
DIRECTOR(S):
Akis Karas, Aikaterini Papageorgiou, Christos Livaditis
RUNTIME: 74 minutes
COUNTRY: Greece
Long before the days of television, radio or even cinema a different form of entertainment existed In Greece, derived from folkloric traditions. It included paper or camel skin-made puppets which were handled by puppeteers who stood behind a white screen, illuminated from the back. Between the figures and the player (who was invisible), were candles or lamps that shed light on the figures and made their silhouettes visible to the audience through the cloth. Traditional puppets gave off black shadows against the white screen, but some more recent puppets have holes covered with coloured silk or plastic gel materials to create colored shadows.
Fast forward 50 years and the puppet show Karagiozeis was created. We all grew up being entertained by this wonderful character. And now, it has finally become a movie we can all enjoy, from grandparents to kids.
This is the first CGI animation movie produced and created in Greece. The Commander decides to appoint a public secretary to serve the citizens in their need to communicate in writing. Hadjiavatis undertakes the task to find the right candidate for the job. He meets Karagiozis, who shows off his grammatical knowledge and hilariously but paradoxically takes the job. Akis Karas (Grigoris Karatinakis), the movie’s art director, is a theater, film, and television director whose movies include Smyrna my Beloved).
