71SSIFF - 22/30 September 2023
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Sti skia toy fovou / In The Shadow of Fear

Giorgios Karypidis
Greece
Synopsis

It is evident that the story of a man who, in order to succeed in composing music, must firts be initiated n anguish, is conveyed through surrealistic fiction with the dimensions of a thriller. Deucalion is harassed by the familiar ills of civilization (money, technology, individualism, isolation, lack of inspiration) and by the fear of the specific powers which control and repress (the legal authorities, the mass communications media). He escapes, panic stricken, trying to rid himself of the powers that ate after him and quite literally rejecting the elements which constitute his social identity. the charge of counterfeiting which he faces and for which he's being pursued is not only a question of money, but obviously has a wider existential nature. 

His flight from the city is chiefly a flight from the present and it enables him to find a lost memory and so to be led to knowledge and freedom. Because through this tortuous course he succeeds in ridding himself of the limiting "ego", as he meets and suffers with the "other". In this way from the musician he is taught the desinterested attachement to art, from the prostitute, like another Mary Magdalene, pity, from the old street cleaner-invisible hero the pain of suffering man, from the woman in the portrait the tragedy of absolute love.

On the other hand, the state functions in a repressive manner, the church turns out tobe a institution incapable of provinding spiritual help (the priest does not undestand his "sin", in other words, his inability to grasp reality). 

Director
Giorgios Karypidis (Greece)
Running Time
92 m.
Country
Greece
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