
Metropoles
1975-08-15 · 90 min · ★ 10.0
This is an experimental film featuring an allegorical audiovisual symphony of image, text (excerpts from works by Proust and verses from Rilke’s poetry) and music through the use of archival photographs taken from Illustration Magazine. It focuses on the urban establishment and links the wave of Western colonization to the period right before the Great War (1914-1918).
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- Directors
- Kostas Sfikas
- Production companies
- Papaefstathiou, Cinetic Media
- Countries
- Greece
- Status
- Released
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