Greece
SOUL KICKING
CREDITS
35mm - colore - 111’
Direction: Yannis Economidis
Screenplay: Yannis Economidis
Photography: Dimitris Katsaitis
Editing: Yannis Chalkiadakis
Setting: Ioulia Stavridou
Sound: Dinos Kittou
Costumes: Ioulia Stavridou
Cast: Errikos Litsis,Vangelis Mourikis, Maria Kehagioglou, Yannis Voulgarakis, Maria Nafpliotou, Costas Xykominos, Sassa Kritsi, Yannis Anastassakis.
Producer: Panos Papahadzis
Production: Argonauts SA, EKK
World sales: Argonauts SA, Panos Papahadzis, Tel. +30 210 8257177 Fax +30 210 8257178, email: info@argonautsproductions.gr, & EKK\ Greek Film Center, Tel. +30 210 3678500 Fax +30 210 3648245, email: info@gfc.gr, website: gfc.gr
SYNOPSIS
Takis is trapped. Takis tries to escape.Takis wants money. He’s got a family, a baby, a home...Takis is being cheated. He loves her and he suffers...Takis can’t take it at work. He’s besieged by savages. But his boss tops them all...Takis has one friend and relatives.Woe is him!...Takis has run out of time.Yet, in his mind, a heavy black cloud has settled, turning everything dark...Takis is silent. He lies down and fills with rage. He fills with rage and sinks deeper...
THE DIRECTOR: YANNIS ECONOMIDIS
He was born in Limassol, Cyprus, in 1967 and studied Film in Athens. He has directed several short films and documentaries. He made his feature film debut in 2003 with the film Matchbox. Soul Kicking is his second feature film and screened at the 45th Int’l Critics Week at Cannes 2006.
DIRECTOR'S NOTES
A man... lots of people... Hell.
Is he in a living nightmare or just another sheep being led to slaughter?
The landscape of Taki's misery is nothing but a terrifying universe where the film captures bluntly the world of the beasts.
Whatever the case may be, prey and predator have blood on their hands...
FILMOGRAPHY
2006 Soul Kicking
2003 Matchbox
1995 The Life you Hoped for, doc.
1994 Just Smelling the Jasmine, short doc.
1992 Gradual Improvement in the Weather, short film
1990 Good Morning Night, short doc.
1989 Episode, short film
