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A Hard Life
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Filmmaker Name:
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Colette Piault
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Film Length:
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55 min
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Film Year:
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1996
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Duration:
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46-75 min
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Decade:
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1990s
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Series:
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Greek series
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Color:
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color
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Region:
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Europe
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Kalliopi Kalogerou has spent her whole life in the Greek village of Ano Ravenia where she was born in 1900. Simple witness of the century, she lived through Turkish domination and successive occupations linked to different wars. Most of her family stays elsewhere, in Greece or abroad (USA, Canada, Germany, Bulgaria); her shattered family world is representative of the Greek diaspora.
A Hard Life focuses on Kalogerou's life story, told to a young Epirot friend, Eleni Pangratiou-Alexakis, and to her daughter, Evguenia, both of whom have settled in the States. The result is a rich, yet austere film where nothing distracts the viewer from the dialogue and the face of the storyteller. It also constitutes an ordinary yet important testimony on this long and painful page of Greek history (1900-1983).
SELECTED SCREENINGS & AWARDS
Bilan du Film Ethnographique, Paris, 1996
Göttingen International Film Festival, Germany, 1996
NAFA Film Festival, Bergen, Norway, 1996
Films in the Greek series:
SCREENINGS, BROADCASTS & AWARDS
Life is a Very Strange Thing
Written, Directed, Produced
Les McLaren & Annie Stiven
Associate Producers
Oscar McLaren
Celine Rouzet
Camera, Sound, Editing
Les McLaren
Archive Camera, Sound - Papua New Guinea
Steve McMillan
Les McLaren
Frederic Duvelle
Music
APRA AMCOS
Institute of PNG Studies
C. Duvelle Field Recordings
Vingan Pty Ltd
Piano Improvisation by Veronique Duvelle
Nalésonko by Ballaké Sissoko
'Gale' by Olivier Ker Ourio & Danyel Waro ℗ Label Cobalt
Photographs, Images
Duvelle Family Collection
C. Duvelle Field Photographs
Hisham Mayet Collection
Archives municipal d'Ivry-Sur Seine
Editions A. Leconte
Jean Hermann
Paintings by Mathias Kauage
Vingan Pty Ltd
Archive Video
Duvelle Family Collection
Ina, France
iTélé-Canal+
antidote-Mondomix
NASA | O.Khazal
Vingan Pty Ltd
Stock Media
Pond5/av geeks
Sweet TV
P. Adamas Photography
dubassy
Plotzki
Translation
Frederic Duvelle
Kim Doan Gerrand
Silvia Martínez Jimeno
William Martin
Aldous Scales
Justine Verreydt
Image Grade, Animation
Roen Davis
Sound Mix
Julian Ellingworth
Film Restoration
Ray Argall
Legal Services
Gai Steele
Special Thanks to
Frédéric & the Duvelle family
Nathalie Berron
Kate Gauld
James Gerrand
Colleen Moore
Magie Family
William Martin
Andrew Pike
Tom Zubrycki
Thanks to
Screen Australia
Liz Stevens
Alyssa Orvis
Thanks also to
Yves Dupouy
Gary Kildea
Haydn Keenan
Tricia Kirby
Don Niles
Clare Norton
Hisham Mayet
Chris Owen
Mark Ragg
Fiona Strain
Leo Sullivan
Yasmin Tadich
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