Description

From the film “When the fish came ashore”, a timeless black-colored notebook with an inner spiral and white pages. On the cover you can see the foreign language title of the film with its graphic imprint.

A special film – misunderstood but quite daring – from the filmography of Michael Cacoyannis was screened at the Festival’s Film Archive in hall St. Turns. When the Fish Came Ashore premiered in 1967 but was screened in Greece due to junta censorship – like many other films – after the transition. At some point in the 80s there was a single television screening by ERT, while in 1997, as part of a special retrospective made by the Thessaloniki Festival in honor of Cacoyannis, he screened it along with the entirety of his filmography. But it all started much earlier.
The aloud thought that Michael Cacoyannis makes as he prepares the film is characteristic: this time humanity escaped a catastrophic accident. But what happens next time? He makes the decision in a flash. He writes the script almost immediately and takes over the production of the film. His goal is to transfer Palomares’ present to an undefined near but disturbing future based on his history of Greece.

Dimensions: 14.5 x 12cm Height: 2.5cm