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For 50 years a group, whose existence was precarious and miserable and whose traditions were threatened, managed to invent a musical solution to its situation all by itself without any recognition or interest. "Rebetiko" was first the music of the outcasts, then became the music of a social class and finally an art crystallizing national identity. It is a syncretic form of music bearing the roots of the Orient and Byzantium and in which the countryside feeds the cities so as to invent a Pan-Hellenic urban modernism. "Rebetiko" is seen as the act that founded a still utopian and never achieved Greek identity which is to stand in opposition with dictatorships and domination : a for ever rebellious and self-governing Greece, a complex but generous country, which is close to its population and reluctant to accept to be a satellite of the Western world. The film will tell the story of this uncommon example and of the society which allowed "Rebetiko" to expand.

France / Greece - 2001 - 53 mn - Betacam Digital - Colour

Réalisation Luc Bongrand Scénario Luc Bongrand, Denis Constant Martin, Tatiana Yannopoulos Image Alain Monclin Son Dimitris Galanopoulos, Costas Coutelidakis Montage Corinne Lapassade, Claude d'Estreez

Production Les Films du Village Co-Production Mezzo, Histoire, Cannes TV, ERT

Ventes Les Films du Village