MAUTHAUSEN

Director: Panagiotis Kountouras, Aristarchos Papadaniel

Producer: Aristarchos Papadaniel, Panayiotis Papadaniel

Producer Company: Syllipsis Ltd.

Agency: Crush Creative Studios, LLC | CCS Releasing

Client: The Greek-German Fund for the Future | Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Greece

Country: Greece

Synopsis

A poetic documentary based on Mikis Theodorakis’s & Iakovos Kambanellis’s Mauthausen Cantata new interpretation by Aristarchos Papadaniel (voice) & Aris Zervas (cello) and the original unpublished text for a film "Travelogue to Mauthausen-May 1988" by the concentration camp survivor and founder of the modern Greek post-war theatre Iakovos Kambanellis. The new MAUTHAUSEN recordings were the last official releases published with the permission of the world-renowned Greek composer and political activist Mikis Theodorakis (ZORBA, Z, Serpico) just one month before his passing. Kambanellis’s unpublished text, was written during his visit and concert in Mauthausen Liberation and Commemoration Ceremony ‘88, coming now to life on Mauthausen Liberation & Commemoration Day 2022 in its natural place -Mauthausen Memorial, Austria- for the first time.

Objectives

The film MAUTHAUSEN is the most personal film script of the creator & camp survivor Iakovos Kambanellis and an unfulfilled vision of his, which 35 years after its initial conception (1988) is now taking its final form, in the place where the martyrdom was experienced and the original inspiration came from. Through this audio-visual modular narrative storytelling project containing 4 songs in short music films and a poetic documentary with high transmedia storytelling value - in memory of "never again" - the story is presented in a refreshed and modern way taking advantage of combining arts such as narration, lyrical drama, performance art, choreography, photography, Holocaust survivor interview within a documentary form making the audiovisual production a special kind of film where art meets and tells history with timeless value. Engaging the audience attention in and out of the box approach by avoiding a monotone structure.