A Quiet Death

  • June 10, 2022 / 13:00

Director: Frieda Liappa
Cast: Eleonora Stathopoulou Pemy Zouni, Takis Moshos, Yorgos Moshos, Ilektra Alexandropoulou, Christos Nikitaidis
Greece, 1986, DCP, 86’, color
Greek with Turkish subtitles

The delirious night of a writer who refuses to write. Running away from her husband and her psychiatrist, with whom she also shares an elusive intimate relationship, she wanders through a storm in the strange and deserted city. Her ultimate desire is to re-invent a lost world of unity.

Madness - Death - Catharsis.

Reconstruction

Reconstruction

Z

Z

The Roundup

The Roundup

John the Violent

John the Violent

The Crossing

The Crossing

Deserter

Deserter

A Quiet Death

A Quiet Death

Olga Robards

Olga Robards

Mania

Mania

Evdokia

Evdokia

The Photograph

The Photograph

The Excursion

The Excursion

The Idlers of the Fertile Vallye

The Idlers of the Fertile Vallye

Morning Patrol

Morning Patrol

Stone Years

Stone Years

Young Aphrodites

Young Aphrodites

Trojan Women

Trojan Women

Kozbekçi Mustafa Ağa

Kozbekçi Mustafa Ağa

When Karl XII of Sweden was defeated by Tsar Peter the Great of Russia in 1709, he fled to the Ottoman Empire and settled in Bender with his entourage for five years.

Postcard Nudes

Postcard Nudes

The various states of viewing nudity entered the Ottoman world on postcards before paintings. These postcards appeared in the 1890s, and became widespread in the 1910s, following the proclamation of the Second Constitutional Monarchy, traveling from hand to hand, city to city. 

Serpent Head

Serpent Head

The Greek god Apollo and his son Asklepios presided over the realm of medicine and healing. Apollo was also the god of light and sun, whose solar symbolism and association with medicine would become linked to Christ the Physician, and the resurrected.