A new documentary wedding film challenge at Megali Vrysi, a village in the municipality of Gortyna in Heraklion, Crete with a wonderful amphitheater view of the surrounding area. In front of the parade walks the musicians in accompaniment of the Cretan lyra and Cretan laouto (a stringed instrument resembling lute), playing folk bridal songs and "mantinades" consist of Cretan rhyming couplets, often improvised during each venue.. followed by the groom with the best man and behind them the guests. There some more "mantinades" convinces the bride's family to open the door that until then must remains closed. If not the groom breaks in the door, after entering the house with a flower bouquet, greets and kisses the hand of the bride's mother, takes her wish and asks to lead the bride to the church. The musicians go forward, then the couple and then the guests with guns and the rice or wheat that they will symbolically throw in the church, to wish for the new couple to "live long".
A life experience, a blend of beautiful images, a variety of musical sounds and reality documentary.. a subconsious language
Rustic Greek Wedding in Heraklion of Crete Island, Greece, featuring songs from the folk musicians Babis Voulgarakis, Babis Gaitanakis, Stelios Papadakis and Ilias Savvakis
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d.ο.photography & editor George Stratigis
cinematography Marie Tzagkaraki & Nickolay Dorozhkin
special thanks to the wedding photographers
George Kamelakis & Manos Striligas.
soundtracks
Hania Rani "Eden" & "Summer"
