BOUZOUKI

The story of Greek urban folk music (laiko) - and of modern Greece itself - told through the history of the bouzouki. Bayiaderas, Tsitsanis, Vamvakaris, Daskalakis, Roza Eskenazi, Eftychia Papagiannopoulou, Vicky Moscholiou, Marinella, Theodorakis, Hadjidakis, all feature in this rich musical journey. Rejected twice by the Thessaloniki Film Festival (first by the Censorship Committee in 1973 and then by the Preselection Committee in 1974) the film explores the sound that guided generations of great artists, marked defining moments in the country's history, and became a mirror of its time.