🎬 History, Documentary

The Gaze of the Gorgon

1992 40m Dir. Peter Symes

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Film poem by Tony Harrison which takes the figure of the Gorgon as a metaphor for the "freedom-fixing politics" which have been responsible for so much conflict this century. It starts in 1992 Frankfurt where Harrison speaks through the mouth of the statue of the German Jewish poet Heinrich Heine. At Corfu in Greece he tells of the link between Heine, the Greek Gorgon and Kaiser Wilhelm II.

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Year
1992
Runtime
40m
Genre
History, Documentary
Director
Language
EN
🎭 History 🎭 Documentary 🎬 Peter Symes

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