An elderly man is riding in a taxi driven by a young man. In the trunk there is a coffin. As night falls, the taxi comes to a quarry. The older man lures the cab driver to a shack, where he introduces him to Karkalou, a woman who has seen better days. They dance to the rhythm of a Louis Armstrong song and then they leave on a little boat, to go on a trip into the world of memories. The travelers’ destination is, once again, the quarry. There, grown men break rocks, revolutionaries conspire to revolt, and the young taxi driver, transformed into the alter ego of his elderly guide, becomes entangled with the woman. At first they quarrel, but then their quarrel ends in a sexual embrace.
Karkalou
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Screening Schedule
PAVLOS ZANNAS
11 May 2025 21:30
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- Direction: Stavros Tornes
- Script: Stavros Tornes, Charlotte van Gelder
- Cinematography: Stamatis Yannoulis
- Editing: Despina Maroulakou
- Sound: Christos Akalestos
- Music: Charlotte van Gelder
- Actors: Stelios Anastassiadis, Marios Karamanis, Ismini Karyotaki, Dimos Theos, Yannis Iliopoulos, Vassilis Loules
- Costumes: Ismini Karyotaki
- Sets: Stelios Anastassiadis
- Format: 35mm
- Color: Colour
- Production Country: Greece
- Production Year: 1984
- Duration: 83'
Stavros Tornes
Filmography
1963 Mycenes (co-direction, short)
1964 Cyclades (co-direction, short)
1967 Thirian Matins (co-direction, short)
1973 Students (short)
1976 Farewell Anatolia (short fiction)
1977 Coatti (fiction)
1979 Eksopragmatico (short)
1982 Nikos Kavvadias
1982 Balamos (fiction)
1983 Hippodamias Square (short)
1984 Karkalou (fiction)
1986 Danilo Treles: The Famed Andalusian Musician (fiction)
1987 A Heron for Germany (fiction)
1964 Cyclades (co-direction, short)
1967 Thirian Matins (co-direction, short)
1973 Students (short)
1976 Farewell Anatolia (short fiction)
1977 Coatti (fiction)
1979 Eksopragmatico (short)
1982 Nikos Kavvadias
1982 Balamos (fiction)
1983 Hippodamias Square (short)
1984 Karkalou (fiction)
1986 Danilo Treles: The Famed Andalusian Musician (fiction)
1987 A Heron for Germany (fiction)