Melina Stop Frame - In Search of Modern Greekness

Melina Stop Frame - In Search of Modern Greekness

50 mins | Documentary | Oct. 20, 2020

Through thirteen images and an equal number of stories, little Melina-Amalia, the teenager, the woman, the fighter, Blanche, Stella, Ilya, Phaedra, Medea, Clytemnestra, Minister of Culture, the stoic Melina in Memorial Hospital, all aspects of the "last Greek goddess". Shot on the stage of the National Theater Rex - Marika Kotopouli, it captures, balancing between theater and cinema, important historical events that make the myth that surrounds the glamorous protagonist even more powerful and charming.

Melina Stop Frame - In Search of Modern Greekness

50 mins | Documentary | Oct. 20, 2020

Melina Stop Frame - In Search of Modern Greekness
Through thirteen images and an equal number of stories, little Melina-Amalia, the teenager, the woman, the fighter, Blanche, Stella, Ilya, Phaedra, Medea, Clytemnestra, Minister of Culture, the stoic Melina in Memorial Hospital, all aspects of the "last Greek goddess". Shot on the stage of the National Theater Rex - Marika Kotopouli, it captures, balancing between theater and cinema, important historical events that make the myth that surrounds the glamorous protagonist even more powerful and charming.
Producers Melina Mercouri Foundation, National Theatre of Greece, Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports
Original title Μελίνα στοπ καρέ – Αναζητώντας τη σύγχρονη ελληνικότητα
Directors Panos Ydraios, Manos Karatzogiannis
Writers