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The “Rebetiko” is the popular Greek song “par excellence”. Created at the beginning of the last century in the dives and slums of Pireus, it sings of the lives of ordinary people, using simple, ordinary words to evoke the joys and heartbreaks of love, the hardships of work, the pain of prison, drugs and exile. The song-form known as the “Rebetiko” first emerged from the aftermath on an historical catastrophy: the expulsion of a million and a half Greeks from their centuries-old homeland in Asia Minor following the war with the Turks in 1922, and their forced settlement in the suburbs of the largest mainland towns. This traumatic event led to the transformation of a form of musical expression which had originally existed as collective improvisations in prisons, or in the 'tekke', clandestine hashish dens, and which now evolved into the popular song of the poorer quarters and underworld.

France / Greece / Netherlands - 2003 - 52 mn - 16 mm - Colour and B&W

Director Timon Koulmasis, Iro Siafliaki Script Timon Koulmasis, Iro Siafliaki Camera Boris Breckoff Sound Marinos Athanassopoulos Editing Aurique Delannoy

Production Zeta Productions, 178 rue de Javel, 75015 Paris, France Tél : +33 (0)1 4574 9858 Fax : +33 (0)1 4437 1501 E-mail : production@zetaprod.com Co-Production ARTE France, ERT - ET1, Nederland Moslim Omroep

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