In This Land Nobody Knew How To Cry
Fiction, 90 ΄, 2018
Synopsis: Something magical is happening in a small unchartered island, somewhere in the Aegean Sea. Two unsuspected foreigners, a French member of the European Parliament and a young Greek economist, arrive in idyllic Armenaki with a fishing boat and become acquainted with the bizarre life style and subversive moral values of its people.
Giorgos Panousopoulos
In 1962 he started working as a camera assistant in renowned Greek studio Finos Films and 3 years later he took over as director of photography in the French-Greek production “The Roundup”, directed by Adonis Kyros. He was the leading D.o.P. of the 1970s and 80s, working with directors like Teo Angelopoulos, Pantelis Voulgaris, Demos Theos, Nikos Panagiotopoulos, Nikos Nikolaidis, Alexis Damianos, Tonia Marketaki, Nikos Perakis and Yorgos Tsemberopoulos. He directed his first short film in 1967, which was subsequently censored by the Greek junta, and made his feature debut with “Honeymoon” in 1979.