An independent Greek feature-length documentary made by Marco Gastine about the campaign for the parliamentary election on May 6 2012 in Greece. The film follows four candidates, giving us a unique opportunity to explore the current political situation in Greece from a different perspective. The politicians belong to four different parties – a former minister from PASOK, a young politician with a family tradition in politics (his father was also MP), a woman from the left-wing SYRIZA and a candidate from Golden Dawn, the extreme right-wing party. Everybody tries to reach out to their voters and no-one has any real answers to Greece’s pressing issues.
Demokratia the way of the cross is an observational, character-driven documentary without narration, a great insightful portrait of Greek politics. Even though it’s about the May 2012 election, Unfortunately for Greece it’s still topical. Things don’t change so quickly, especially when they have been in the same status quo for so many years. It would have been better if it had been possible to have had this hot documentary ready sooner, but Marco Gastine told me that he preferred to have the premier in festivals, which is understandable. The documentary was directed and produced by Marco Gastine jointly with Katerina Patroni, Nikolia Apostolou, Haris Raftogiannis, Christos Georgoutsos and Yiannis Misouridis. Each of these Greek filmmakers and camera-men and -women followed one politician. They had already worked together as a team for the series Docville, produced by Gastine. The documentary (91 min, 52 min) was in the Market at DOK Leipzig and will be distributed in theatres in Greece in January.On Wednesday December 5, the film will be screened at the French Institute in Athens (Sina 31, Kolonaki).
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Listen to the interview (English) Marco Gastin gave me in November 2012 in Athens.