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A Hard Life

Colette Piault

A Hard Life

About

Kalliopi Kalogerou has spent her whole life in the Greek village of Ano Ravenia where she was born in 1900. Simple witness of the century, she lived through Turkish domination and successive occupations linked to different wars. Most of her family stays elsewhere, in Greece or abroad (USA, Canada, Germany, Bulgaria); her shattered family world is representative of the Greek diaspora. 

A Hard Life focuses on Kalogerou's life story, told to a young Epirot friend, Eleni Pangratiou-Alexakis, and to her daughter, Evguenia, both of whom have settled in the States. The result is a rich, yet austere film where nothing distracts the viewer from the dialogue and the face of the storyteller. It also constitutes an ordinary yet important testimony on this long and painful page of Greek history (1900-1983).


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Credits

SCREENINGS, BROADCASTS & AWARDS 


Life is a Very Strange Thing


Written, Directed, Produced 

Les McLaren & Annie Stiven


Associate Producers

Oscar McLaren

Celine Rouzet


Camera, Sound, Editing 

Les McLaren


Archive Camera, Sound - Papua New Guinea

Steve McMillan

Les McLaren

Frederic Duvelle


Music

APRA AMCOS

Institute of PNG Studies

C. Duvelle Field Recordings

Vingan Pty Ltd

Piano Improvisation by Veronique Duvelle

Nalésonko by Ballaké Sissoko

'Gale' by Olivier Ker Ourio & Danyel Waro ℗ Label Cobalt


Photographs, Images

Duvelle Family Collection

C. Duvelle Field Photographs

Hisham Mayet Collection

Archives municipal d'Ivry-Sur Seine

Editions A. Leconte

Jean Hermann

Paintings by Mathias Kauage

Vingan Pty Ltd


Archive Video

Duvelle Family Collection

Ina, France

iTélé-Canal+

antidote-Mondomix

NASA | O.Khazal

Vingan Pty Ltd


Stock Media

Pond5/av geeks

Sweet TV

P. Adamas Photography

dubassy

Plotzki


Translation

Frederic Duvelle

Kim Doan Gerrand

Silvia Martínez Jimeno

William Martin

Aldous Scales

Justine Verreydt


Image Grade, Animation

Roen Davis


Sound Mix

Julian Ellingworth


Film Restoration

Ray Argall


Legal Services

Gai Steele


Special Thanks to

Frédéric & the Duvelle family

Nathalie Berron

Kate Gauld

James Gerrand

Colleen Moore

Magie Family

William Martin

Andrew Pike   

Tom Zubrycki


Thanks to

Screen Australia

Liz Stevens

Alyssa Orvis


Thanks also to

Yves Dupouy

Gary Kildea

Haydn Keenan

Tricia Kirby

Don Niles

Clare Norton

Hisham Mayet

Chris Owen

Mark Ragg

Fiona Strain

Leo Sullivan

Yasmin Tadich

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