- Also known as:
- Prisoners of the sea
Documentary, Germany 1991, 16mm, colour, 78'
SYNOPSIS
The sudden sponges disease, which burst out after the Chernobyl disaster, forced the famous sponge fishermen of the Greek Island Kalymnos, to prepare themselves for a long distance voyage to the North of Africa.
Nikolas, a lonely sponge diver has other plans...
CREDITS & CAST
- Written and directed by:
- Angeliki Antoniou
- Producer:
- Joachim Rothe
- Original Music:
- Iordanis, Nikitas
- Production:
- Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR), Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB)
- Direction of Photography:
- Patrick Lindenmaier
- Camera Assistant:
- Stefan Schwietert
- Editing:
- Wolfgang Gessat, Petra Heymann
- Sound:
- Nikos Papadimitriou
DISTRIBUTION
- Germany:
- ex picturis Filmvertrieb
- Switzerland:
- LOOK NOW!
PRESS
DIE RHEINPFALZ
A film of classical, strict beauty with strong internal power
Bernd Bunge
DER TAGESSPIEGEL
A probing, insightful look into the oppressive world of Greek Sponge divers
Sabine Carbon
DER MORGEN, BERLIN
The movie impresses through its strict form- the camera reveals silently without any vanity, faces, movements, stories. The developing catastrophe of the nature gets revealed through the environmental pollution without descending into didacticism.
Peter Claus
TIP
Worth seeing!
Andre Simonoviescz
ZITTY
A timely documentary on an epic scale
Gym
ARTECHOCK
The film tells strongly the story of the sponge diver Nikolas, who after his diving accident gets paralyzed, but he can not give up his love for the sea
24th INTERNATIONAL HOF FILM FESTIVAL
Remarkable Direction
Ute Thon