Savvopoulos Long Play — Season 1, Episode 2: To perivoli tou Trellou
Animation, Documentary, Talk • 59 min • 1 season, 6 episodes
Episode synopsis
In the 2nd episode, we watch Dionysis Savvopoulos being hosted at the house of Kostas Ferris to avoid arrest. Then he gains courage, goes out, and is arrested outside the offices of the LYRA record company. He is taken to Bouboulinas and tortured. He is released from prison, marries Aspa and with a forged passport leaves for Paris, where he will experience the great explosion of May 1968, which he describes with great vividness. From there to Milan, where he sings in the square, outside Brera. But Aspa is pregnant and they take the road back to Athens. He tries to return to Plaka, but the Security forbids him. He finds himself creating a new musical universe at Rodeo, on Heyden Street, uniting different groups, the young "giegiedes" of Fokionos Negri, the intellectuals and the old leftists of the 1-1-4 generation and the Lambrakis Youth.
About Savvopoulos Long Play
This special six-episode tribute focuses on the discography of Dionysis Savvopoulos, presenting ten of his emblematic albums - a turning point in Greek music. Six total "eras" of musical creation and history. In this documentary, which was to be the last legacy of Dionysis Savvopoulos, he himself tells stories that marked his life and the lives of everyone, from 1965, when he released his first album, to the present day, while for the last time he sings, with his guitar and unique voice, songs that we loved from his discography. In his unique way - the one that sweetly mixes myth with reality - he talks about the "lives" he lived, the people he met, his songs that were loved and left their indelible mark over time. The visual part, is by Alexis Kyritsopoulos, a companion and friend of Savvopoulos from the beginning, with works that he designed especially for this particular tribute, which also come to life through animation.