Euridice BA 2037

Euridice BA 2037 (Greek: Ευριδίκη ΒΑ 2037) is a 1975 Greek-West German co-production black and white dramatic surrealist underground film directed by Nikos Nikolaidis, his debut feature film.^[1]

Euridice BA 2037
Theatrical release poster
Ευριδίκη ΒΑ 2037
Directed by	Nikos Nikolaidis
Written by	Nikos Nikolaidis
Produced by	Nikos Nikolaidis Vadim Glowna Vera Tschechowa
Starring	Vera Tschechowa John Moore Niki Triantafillidi Manolis Logiadis
Cinematography	Giorgos Panousopoulos
Edited by	Giorgos Triandafyllou
Music by	Antonio Vivaldi Frédéric Chopin Dinah Shore
Production companies	Atossa Film Produktion GmbH Marni Film
Release date	29 September 1975 (1975-09-29) (Thessaloniki Festival of Greek Cinema)
Running time	96 minutes
Countries	Greece West Germany
Language	Greek

Plot

Partially based on Greek mythology, the film centers on Eurydice as she waits for her lover Orpheus to save her from Hades. While waiting for her rescue from the underworld, she faces her fears, desires, hallucinations, and memories.

Cast

• Vera Tschechowa as Eurydice
• John Moore as Man
• Niki Triantafillidi as Woman
• Manolis Logiadis

Reception

Accolades

Despite a lukewarm reaction by viewers, critics appreciated the innovative perspective on the classic Greek tragedy of Orpheus and Eurydice and noted the originality of Nikolaidis' artistic techniques. It is characteristic that Nikolaidis himself believed Euridice BA 2037 to be his best film.^[2]

André Z. Labarrére and Olivier Labarrére, authors of Atlas du cinéma, wrote that the film was one of the "New Greek Cinema" films that "radically transformed the panorama."^[3]

For this film, Nikolaidis won the Best New Director Award, the Greek National Ministry of Culture Award, as well as the Athens Film Critics Association Best Picture Award at the Thessaloniki Festival of Greek Cinema in September 1975, where Marie-Louise Bartholomew, who was involved in the production of the film, also won the Best Set Designer Award, and Andreas Andreadakis, who was involved in the editing of the film, also won the Best Editor Award.^[4][5]

References

1. Filmkunst: Zeitschrift für Filmkultur und Filmwissenschaft, Nummer 67–79, 1975, S. 84. Wien: Österreichische Gesellschaft für Filmwissenschaft, Bundesministerium für Unterricht (in German); Gesek, Ludwig (Mai 1975). In Filmkunst: Zeitschrift für Filmkultur und Filmwissenschaft, Nummer 67/68, S. 6. Wien: Österreichische Gesellschaft für Filmwissenschaft, Bundesministerium für Unterricht. (in German)
2. "Nikolaidis Nikos". That's Greece: Culture, Performing Arts, Cinema. Archived from the original on 12 October 2014. Retrieved 5 December 2014.
3. Labarrére, André Z., y Labarrére, Olivier (2009). Atlas del cine (Título original: Atlas du cinéma. Paris: Librairie Générale Française, 2002). Madrid: Ediciones Akal. p. 275. ISBN 8446021501. (in Spanish)
4. Γενικά 1975: 16ο Φεστιβάλ Ελληνικού Κινηματογράφου. Διεθνές Φεστιβάλ Κινηματογράφου Θεσσαλονίκης (Πληροφορίες: Βραβεία) (in Greek). Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 5 December 2014.
5. Schuster, Mel (1979). The Contemporary Greek Cinema. Metuchen, New Jersey: Scarecrow Press. p. 324. ISBN 0810811960.

Further reading

• Variety's Film Reviews, Volume 14: 1975–1977, New York, New York: R.R. Bowker, 1989 (ISBN 0835227944).

External links

• Euridice BA 2037 at Nikos Nikolaidis (Film Director/Writer/Producer)
• Euridice BA 2037 at IMDb
• Euridice BA 2037 at the Greek Film Archive Film Museum: Archived 19 December 2015 at the Wayback Machine Home Page Archived 11 May 2017 at the Wayback Machine, Digital Archives Archived 13 July 2017 at the Wayback Machine, Filmography Archived 13 July 2017 at the Wayback Machine
• Euridice BA 2037 at 5 Books, 6 Films, and... Nikos Nikolaidis: Films
• Euridice BA 2037 at The New York Times Movies
• Euridice BA 2037 at Film Portal: Filme (in German)