In the words of Nikos Koundouros: “So, the death of a poet, the death of Byron in Greece, the Greece that he chose as a landscape,as a frame, for his death… He wanted to end his life here, a life which he considered already ended in his existential agony, and he wanted to end it gloriously, in this place of his beloved myths… This is a time when the Greek Revolution was falling, it was really a time on the brink of despair. So we have the death and despair of the poet in an environment that we could describe as the death and despair of a revolution”.
Nikos Koundouros (1926-2017) was born in Crete and studied painting and sculpture in Athens. Due to his political beliefs, he was persecuted and exiled, both after the end of World War II and during the junta. His first feature film was Magic city(1953), while the next film The ogre of Athens (1956) established him as a filmmaker. His films were distinguished internationally and he is considered one of the most important Greek auteurs.
