Canciones llanas de la amarga tierra
Plot: Short film inspired by the book of engravings Dimitri Papageorgiou made to illustrate the 18 songs from the bitter earth flat, short poems that Ritsos Yasnnis wrote in 1968 when he was imprisoned on the island of Leros, Greece, during the dictatorship of the colonels. Also, Mikis Theodorakis wrote music to these poems, sung by Maria Faranduri, in a beautiful LP released in 1973 Yannis Ritsos was born in Monenvasiá, Greece, in 1909
Release Date:
Thursday, June 1 1978
46 years ago
46 years ago