A new mini-documentary series of 7 episodes, entitled “Disasters and Triumphs”, premieres on SKAI on Thursday, January 6 at 21.00 and will be broadcast every Thursday and Friday at the same time. It is a journey into our past, through seven great historical circles of our history that share common elements: ambitious plans, great disasters but also impressive triumphs.
Two hundred years after the outbreak of the Greek Revolution and twelve years after the outbreak of an unprecedented economic crisis, we turn our gaze to the past to be able to imagine the future. Unfortunately, the crisis has taught us to look at the past exclusively through its own prism. Naturally, depression and pessimism prevailed. Are we worthy and capable of something better?
We can easily see that our history is riddled with great catastrophes: from the massacre of Chios in 1822 and the successive bankruptcies of the 19th century, to the junta and the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974, going through the National Divide, the Asia Minor Catastrophe , the Occupation and the Civil War. Are we as a country doomed to live one disaster after another? Is our history, after all, an unbroken chain of disasters? And if so, what is the cause? Is it our eternal division? The evil spirit of our race? The conspiracies of foreigners against us?
The series “Disasters and Triumphs” seeks the answers to these questions. The central question is how we finally managed to transform the disasters we experienced into triumphs. And the answers are often surprising.
This is a new, original narrative of our modern history that unfolds in a cinematic way. Starring the natural and structured environment of the place that is closely related to the historical narrative. It unfolds like this, a fascinating mosaic that will surely arouse great interest and much discussion. The series is based on the book of the same name by Stathis Kalyvas, Professor of Political Science at Oxford and formerly at Yale, a member of the American and British Academy of Sciences and is based on the most reliable recent historical research and the participation of 35 top experts.
The book was translated into a seven-episode television series by Anemon Productions (Rea Apostolidis, Yuri Averoff). They sign the direction Alexandros Mercouris, Andreas Apostolidis and Yuri Averoff, while the role of presenter and narrator is taken over by Stathis Kalyvas. The shooting includes places – stations where the most important events of modern Greece unfolded, emblematic buildings but also historical archives where the viewer gains access to rare items, anecdotal photos and films. In these locations, Stathis Kalyvas meets some of the most influential academics and scholars of modern Greece, such as George Dertilis, Maria Efthymiou, Roderick Beaton, Nikos Marantzidis, Costas Kostis, Panagis Panagiotopoulos, Nikos Alivizatos, Manos Matsaganis, Konstantina Botsiou, Chrysafis Iordanoglou and Gerasimos.
The series develops through seven episodes that correspond to seven major historical cycles:
• A country is born – 1821-1830
• A state from scratch – 1830-1912
• For a Great Idea – 1912-1923
• From discord to miracle – 1923-1950
• From socialism to the euro – 1974-2004
• The Memorandum – 2004-Today
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Presenter: Stathis Kalyvas
Directed by: Alexandros Mercouris, Andreas Apostolidis, Yuri Averoff
Photo: Giannis Kanakis
Sound recording: Aris Kafentzis
Montage: Yuri Averoff
Production Address: Mary Ignatiadis, Electra Peppa
Producers: Rea Apostolidis, Yuri Averoff
A production of Anemon Productions for SKAI, with the support of EKOME
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