Savvopoulos Long Play — Season 1, Episode 4: Apo ta Deka Hronia Kommatia os ti Rezerva
Animation, Documentary, Talk • 56 min • 1 season, 6 episodes
Episode synopsis
July 1974. The junta collapses, Karamanlis returns from Paris, a huge wave takes people out into the streets and fills the stadiums for the first political concerts of the post-dictatorship. Savvopoulos, however, follows a more solitary path. First song "For Cyprus", second "Politeftis". The album "Ten Years of Songs" is released, with songs he recorded with a tape recorder during the dictatorship. In the meantime, we follow the fever of the first post-dictatorship, the November elections, the referendum on the monarchy, the adoption of the new constitution and the trial of the leaders of the junta. In Savvopoulos' world, the next important stop comes in February 1976, when Karolos Koun called him to music and songs for Aristophanes' "Acharnians".
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.