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)
Amerikalı yönetmen, yapımcı, yazar ve aktör. New York’ta tiyatro ve radyo deneyimi kazandıktan sonra 1940’ta Hollywood’da RKO, MGM gibi şirketlerde çalıştı. “Brute Force” (1947), “The Naked City” (1948), “Thieves’ Highway” (1949) gibi kültleşmiş film noir’larıyla büyük bir çıkış yakaladı. McCarthy döneminde Kara Liste’ye alınınca Avrupa’ya taşındı ve Fransız yapımı “Rififi” (1955) ve o dönem için skandal sayılan “Never on Sunday” (1959) gibi filmleriyle uluslararası başarılar elde etti.
