Nikos Karouzos – Poems on a Tape Recorder

Nikos Karouzos – Poems on a Tape Recorder

2021 · 101 min · ★ 8.0 · Documentary

In the midst of the economic crisis, a persistent researcher delves into the eventful life and the unexplored work of preeminent Greek modernist poet, Nikos Karouzos. Through photos, archives, super 8s, videotapes and memories, he travels back in time accompanying the poet from the traumatic postwar history of Greece to the Academy of Stockholm and all the way to the 1921 rebellion of Kronstadt in order to find a lost film footage.

Directed by Yannis Karpouzis · Written by Ilias Liatsopoulos

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