Memories of a Sunday

Το χρονικό μιας Κυριακής

Six stories threaded with the same melancholy Sunday mood and a sense that the era of decency and hope is no more. The characters of this kaleidoscopic film include a coachman hopelessly seeking a fare, an elderly couple wandering through a park, a man laying flowers in memory of his dead friend, and a woman waiting endlessly for a letter to come. With Memories of a Sunday – his first film after the fall of the Greek military dictatorship, made amid the ferment of a political cinema scene – Kanellopoulos proves himself an unconventional filmmaker who stays unwaveringly true to his singular vision, presenting as he does a lyrical film focused on minor defeats, modest dreams, and the muffled miseries of daily life. Stripped of all dialogue, with only the voice of a narrator on hand to speak of the leads’ suffering, and with music by Eleni Karaindrou adorning the exquisitely framed shots, this film stands tall in the director’s oeuvre.
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Direction: Takis Kanellopoulos
Script: Takis Kanellopoulos
Cinematography: Yorgos Christoforidis
Music: Eleni Karaindrou
Actors: Thanasis Tzeneralis, Popi Alva, Yorgos Fourniadis, Lina Lambraki, Nikos Vrettos
Production: Greek Film Center
Producers: Yorgos Kanellopoulos
Color: Color
Production Country: Greece
Production Year: 1975
Duration: 72'
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)