Excursion

Εκδρομή

As an indeterminate war rages (World War II or the Greek Civil War?), the wife of a lieutenant fighting on the front line goes to be with him. She also becomes romantically involved with a young sergeant serving as her husband’s adjutant. Hopelessly in love, the sergeant contrives a way of convincing her to cross the border with him. Excursion, Kanellopoulos’ second feature- length film, marks the pinnacle of his career: with it, the director gifts us an iconic film that simultaneously unfurls as a popular melodrama centering on an archetypal pair of star-crossed lovers, as an epic Western set against the ruggedness and mud of the Macedonian landscape, and as a densely modernist work on an equal footing with the European vanguard of the time. Lili Papayanni’s appearance in Excursion cannot but sear itself indelibly on the memory. Without doubt one of the most felicitous moments in Greek cinema.
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Direction: Takis Kanellopoulos
Script: Yorgos Kitsopoulos
Cinematography: Syrakos Danalis
Editing: Takis Kanellopoulos
Music: Nikos Mamangakis
Actors: Lili Papagianni, Angelos Antonopoulos, Kostas Katagiorgis, Kostas Lachas
Producers: Kostas Kanellopoulos
Color: B/W
Production Country: Greece
Production Year: 1966
Duration: 83'
Contact: Greek Film Center (info@gfc.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)