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The Hellenic Society Prometheas presents The Cistern (Film in Greek, No subtitles.)
The Hellenic Society Prometheas Presents The Cistern (2001)Elefsina, 1974. A band of young teenagers roams their neighborhood spending, unwittingly, the last summer of their childhood. They challenge each other in pranks, soccer games, biking around, fighting the opposite gang, diving in an abandoned cistern, and dealing with grownups. It is that grownup world that encroaches around them, however, and before the summer is over will transform each one of them completely. This is a tribute to a fast-disappearing but still resonant late-20 th-centuryexperience, and to often-overlooked times and places, rendering them in probably the richest Technicolor used in Greek cinema. Christos Dimas (b. 1969) studied political science in Athens and attended cinematography seminars in Europe. In 1997 he moved to the US where for a few years he worked in Northern California as an assistant director in Lucas Film and other studios. His own first few movies were four dramatic shorts: A Sky Full ofStars (1995), Tender (1997), Breath (1998), and Amerikanos (1999). Once back inGreece, he has been a prolific director and writer in various media: television ( RedCircle; Babalou; etc.), theater, and even music videos. The Cistern is based on hissemi-autobiographical book “The Acrobats of the Garden”. In his first feature film, Dimas worked with several well-known actors and actresses. Themis Bazaka (oldest of three sisters) won the Best Supporting Actress award in the Thessaloniki Film Festival. The kids crew gives a convincing performance. Editing and photography are of high quality. Dimas’s storyline spawns several subplots, but at the end he pulls them all back together. St. George Greek Orthodox Church 7701 Bradley Blvd, Bethesda, MD 20817 Friday, October 27, 2006, 8:00 pm The film is shown in Greek and without subtitles (NR, 110 min) Admission: $5 (students with ID: free) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Hellenic Society Prometheas, 6700 Landon Lane, Bethesda MD, 20817 Tel. 301-229-9389 www.Prometheas.org
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