THE REHEARSAL
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THE REHEARSAL
Melina Mercouri, Jules Dassin: Culture and Politics
21 Kasım Salı 19.00
Greece, UK | 1974 | DCP | Black&White | 92’ Greek – Turkish & English Subtitled
Director: Jules Dassin Screenplay: Jules Dassin Director of Photography: Alan Metzger Editing: Suzanne Bauman Music: Mikis Theodorakis Cast: Melina Mercouri, Mikis Theodorakis, Rénos Mandis, Olympia Dukakis Producer: Melina Mercouri
SYNOPSIS
“The Rehearsal” is one of the most exceptional films by Jules Dassin, the director of unforgettable film noirs such as “Rififi”, “Brute Force” and “The Naked City”. This film was clandestinely shot in a studio in New York. Completed in just four weeks with a very low budget, it reenacts the student uprising at the Athens Polytechnic University in 1973. Documenting the events that resulted in the deaths of 40 students on November 17, the film reconstructs the incidents through documents, interviews, songs, and poems. It brings together names like Melina Mercouri, Lillian Hellman, Maximilian Schell, Arthur Miller, and Laurence Olivier, all involved in the same uprising.
Jules Dassin (1911-2008)
American director, producer, writer and actor. After gaining theater and radio experience in New York, he worked in Hollywood with companies such as RKO and MGM. He had a strong start with his cult film noirs “Brute Force” (1947), “The Naked City” (1948), and “Thieves’ Highway” (1949). When he was blacklisted during the McCarthy period, he moved to Europe and gained international success with the French production “Rififi” and the scandalous at the time film “Never on Sunday” (1959).
