Λεπτομέρειες Παραγωγής

“Sonata”

A short film by Theni Kontrafouri and Emmanuel G. Mavros

Based on the poem “Moonlight Sonata” by Yiannis Ritsos

Screenplay by Theoni Kontrafouri.

DoP: Panos Besis
Produced by Medea Pictures
Cast:
Despoina Mavrogianni
Sevastianna Tsani
Vaggelis Tsamis
Γιωργος Μαυρος
Elisavet Tsami

Because, finally, I must get out of this broken-down house.

The Woman in White is reminiscing as she wanders in a lifeless home. Wife, mother, housekeeper, poet, female, mortal human… All these parts of herself no longer seem to exist but her presence still seems to be everywhere. She is inside the photos that keep the Man still, silent and indifferent in front of the TV screen. Close to her baby who needs her care and caress. Inside the reflection in the mirror when the Girl in Black looks at herself as she is struggling to figure out how to leave a home she can no longer bear. “Let me come with you…” they both ask, as a demand and a plea. And maybe, until the moon is gone from the night sky, perhaps they will have found the way that leads each of them from the darkness to light…

“Άφησέ με,
γιατί τόσα χρόνια, μέρες και νύχτες και πορφυρά μεσημέρια,
έμεινα μόνη,
ανένδοτη, μόνη και πάναγνη,
ακόμη στη συζυγική μου κλίνη πάναγνη και μόνη,
γράφοντας ένδοξους στίχους στα γόνατα του Θεού,
στίχους πού, σε διαβεβαιώ, θα μείνουνε σα λαξευμένοι σε άμεμπτο
μάρμαρο πέρα απ’ τη ζωή μου και τη ζωή σου, πέρα πολύ. Δε φτάνει.
Άφησέ με νά ‘ρθω μαζί σου”