The Last Spring

Like the final part of a non-official trilogy launched by Excursion and continued by Interlude, The Last Spring is split into three stories that all touch upon the repercussions and futility of war. Three men renegotiate such concepts as desertion, humanism, and freedom, while a woman played here by Emilia Ypsilanti takes up the baton from Excursion’s Lili Papayanni and Interlude’s Alexandra Ladikou, joining them in turn to complete a trinity of women who were Takis Kanellopoulos’ muses but also, at once, his alter egos. The melancholy of her gaze, so arrestingly shot by Grigoris Danalis, epitomizes – unbeknownst to Kanellopoulos – the end of his oeuvre’s first phase, given the contempt the film would draw from critics and audiences alike at the Thessaloniki Film Festival that would distance him yet further from the contemporary scene and isolate him, once and for all, within his fixations. Despite having the powerful Finos Film on board as a co-producer, the feature was never commercially released in Greek theaters.

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Direction: Takis Kanellopoulos

Script: Takis Kanellopoulos

Cinematography: Grigoris Danalis

Music: Yorgos Theodosiadis

Actors: Emilia Ypsilanti, Yorgos Fourniadis, Agis Pergantis, Vasilis Platanis

Production: Finos Film

Producers: Takis Kanellopoulos

Color: B/W

Production Country: Greece

Production Year: 1972

Duration: 70'

Contact: Yorgos Kanellopoulos, info@kanelamps.gr

Takis Kanellopoulos

Filmography

1960 Macedonian Wedding (short)
1961 Thassos (short)
1962 Glory Sky (fiction)
1966 Excursion (fiction)
1968 Interlude (fiction)
1969 Kastoria (short)
1972 The Last Spring (fiction)
1975 Memories of a Sunday (fiction)
1978 Romantic Note (fiction)
1980 Sonia (fiction)