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Euridice BA 2037
Theatrical release poster
Ευριδίκη ΒΑ 2037
Directed byNikos Nikolaidis
Written byNikos Nikolaidis
Produced byNikos Nikolaidis
Vadim Glowna
Vera Tschechowa
StarringVera Tschechowa
John Moore
Niki Triantafillidi
Manolis Logiadis
CinematographyGiorgos Panousopoulos
Edited byGiorgos Triandafyllou
Music byAntonio Vivaldi
Frédéric Chopin
Dinah Shore
Production
companies
Atossa Film Produktion GmbH
Marni Film
Release date
29 September 1975 (Thessaloniki Festival of Greek Cinema)
Running time
96 minutes
CountriesGreece
West Germany
LanguageGreek

Euridice BA 2037 (Greek: Ευριδίκη ΒΑ 2037) is a 1975 Greek-West German co-production black and white dramatic surrealist underground film directed by Nikos Nikolaidis, his debut feature film.[1]

Plot

Partially based on Greek mythology, the film centers on Eurydice as she waits for her lover Orpheus to save her from Hades. While waiting for her rescue from the underworld, she faces her fears, desires, hallucinations, and memories.

Cast

Reception

Accolades

Despite a lukewarm reaction by viewers, critics appreciated the innovative perspective on the classic Greek tragedy of Orpheus and Eurydice and noted the originality of Nikolaidis' artistic techniques. It is characteristic that Nikolaidis himself believed Euridice BA 2037 to be his best film.[2]

André Z. Labarrére and Olivier Labarrére, authors of Atlas du cinéma, wrote that the film was one of the "New Greek Cinema" films that "radically transformed the panorama."[3]

For this film, Nikolaidis won the Best New Director Award, the Greek National Ministry of Culture Award, as well as the Athens Film Critics Association Best Picture Award at the Thessaloniki Festival of Greek Cinema in September 1975, where Marie-Louise Bartholomew, who was involved in the production of the film, also won the Best Set Designer Award, and Andreas Andreadakis, who was involved in the editing of the film, also won the Best Editor Award.[4][5]


References

  1. ^ Filmkunst: Zeitschrift für Filmkultur und Filmwissenschaft, Nummer 67–79, 1975, S. 84. Wien: Österreichische Gesellschaft für Filmwissenschaft, Bundesministerium für Unterricht (in German); Gesek, Ludwig (Mai 1975). In Filmkunst: Zeitschrift für Filmkultur und Filmwissenschaft, Nummer 67/68, S. 6. Wien: Österreichische Gesellschaft für Filmwissenschaft, Bundesministerium für Unterricht. (in German)
  2. ^ "Nikolaidis Nikos". That's Greece: Culture, Performing Arts, Cinema. Archived from the original on 12 October 2014. Retrieved 5 December 2014.
  3. ^ Labarrére, André Z., y Labarrére, Olivier (2009). Atlas del cine (Título original: Atlas du cinéma. Paris: Librairie Générale Française, 2002). Madrid: Ediciones Akal. p. 275. ISBN 8446021501. (in Spanish)
  4. ^ Γενικά 1975: 16ο Φεστιβάλ Ελληνικού Κινηματογράφου. Διεθνές Φεστιβάλ Κινηματογράφου Θεσσαλονίκης (Πληροφορίες: Βραβεία) (in Greek). Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 5 December 2014.
  5. ^ Schuster, Mel (1979). The Contemporary Greek Cinema. Metuchen, New Jersey: Scarecrow Press. p. 324. ISBN 0810811960.

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External links

Films directed by Nikos Nikolaidis
Orpheus and Eurydice
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