WHEEL (THE)


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  • Genre: Feature Film
  • Jaar: 1964
  • Beschrijving: The adventures of a wheel in the land of Attica. The wheel is unexpectedly deorbited and meanders autonomously in diverse places.
    1. OPENING TITLES Shots of Athens, accompanied by comments on city life, the professions and the neuroses of the inhabitants of the city)
    10. THE WHEEL RETURNS TO FRANTIC CITY LIFE The wheel finishes its long trip and returns to frantic city life, where cogwheels turn fast in a noisy and stuffy atmosphere, while the eternal Attic light still reigns over the rooftops. (CENTRAL STREETS OF ATHENS – PANORAMIC VIEW OF ATHENS FROM HIGH UP)
    2. INTRODUCTION: THE FRENZY OF THE CITY Shots of Athens, accompanied by comments on city life, the professions and the neuroses of the inhabitants of the city. (STREETS OF ATHENS)
    3. THE WHEEL PULLS AWAY FROM THE CAR’S AXIS AND ROLLS ON THE BEACH The wheel of a car loosens and detaches from the car. It runs on the streets and arrives at a beach where hundreds of Athenians bask in the sun. The narration continues.The wheel continues its trip on the city streets. It falls in love with another wheel and tries to “make love with it”. A comment on love, reflecting the inhabitants of the city. (A BEACH AT THE SARONIC GULF)
    4. THE WHEEL WANDERS IN ATHENS The wheel wanders with music in several known places in Athens. (STREETS OF ATHENS – OMONOIA SQUARE – TEMPLE OF THE OLYMPIAN ZEUS – SYNTAGMA – HERODES ATTICUS THEATER)
    5. THE WHEEL VISITS ATHENS The wheel visits the Acropolis, along with several tourists. The narrator makes sharp and ironic comments on the Athenians’ indifference for their great monument. (THE ACROPOLIS)
    6. AN INSIDE VIEW OF THE PEOPLE OF THE CITY The wheel continues its wandering on the rooftops of buildings and observes the private life of its inhabitants: people fight, a man sleeps on a roof, another one performs his morning exercise routine imagining that the wheel chases him, two girls sunbathe on a rooftop. (BUILDING ROOFTOPS)
    7. THE WHEEL WANDERS IN THE POOR NEIGHBORHOODS OF ATHENS The wheel arrives at the poor neighborhoods of Athens. Shacks with children playing among the garbage. The narrator questions the ambitious expectations and promises of statistics to eliminate poverty in the city and to upgrade everything, from technology to education. (POOR NEIGHBORHOOD OF ATHENS – NEIGHBORHOOD STREETS OF ATHENS)
    8. THE CITY OF APARTMENT BUILDINGS Shots from the façades of apartment buildings and comments on the quality of life that surrounds them: reduction of quiet, of privacy and, certainly, of the horizon. (FACADES OF APARTMENT BUILDINGS)
    9. THE WHEEL VISITS ANCIENT AND MODERN CEMETERIES The wheel passes from ancient and modern cemeteries and ends up in a graveyard of cars and wheels, where the compression of the discarded spare parts is not much different from what the inhabitants of the city experience. (YARD OF USED CARS AND SPARE PARTS – GRAVEYARD)
  • Trefwoorden: IMediaCities / ΠΑΡΑΓΚΕΣ ΠΟΛΥΚΑΤΟΙΚΙΕΣ ΠΑΡΑΛΙΑ ΝΕΚΡΟΤΑΦΕΙΟ ΑΘΗΝΑ / SHACKS BLOCKS OF FLATS BEACH CEMETERY ATHENS / ΠΑΡΑΓΚΕΣ ΠΟΛΥΚΑΤΟΙΚΙΕΣ ΠΑΡΑΛΙΑ ΝΕΚΡΟΤΑΦΕΙΟ ΑΘΗΝΑ / SHACKS BLOCKS OF FLATS BEACH CEMETERY ATHENS
  • Provider: Tainiothiki tis Ellados
  • Rechten: In Copyright
  • Director: ADAMOPOULOS THEODOROS
  • Collectie: Ψηφιοποιημένες ελληνικές ταινίες μυθοπλασίας