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Clementine

In an unspecified Mediterranean island a boy comes across two peculiar men in striped costumes. Soon, the boy realizes that life also has two faces. It can be both an ugly war and a beautiful girl called Clementine.

  • Longinos Panagi
    Director
    Thyrathen (1996), The Hill or a study for Anna (1999), Fool Moon
  • Longinos Panagi
    Writer
    Thyrathen (1996), The Hill or a study for Anna (1999), Fool Moon (2005)
  • Konstantinos Othonos
    Producer
    Ashes of summer* Dir. Agis Paikos (super16) color 25’ 2007 In less than a minute* Dir. Othonos Konstantinos (super16) color 5’ 2005 Urban nomad Dir Orestis Lambrou (super16) color 12’ 2005 SnailMan Dir. Othonos Konstantinos (super16) color 10’ 2004 Fool Moon* Dir. Loginos Panagi.
  • Aggelos Nikolaou ▼
    Key Cast
    "BOY "
  • Eleni Michael ▼
    Key Cast
    "LITTLE CLEMENTINE"
  • Nektarios Theodorou ▼
    Key Cast
    "MAN IN STRIPED COSTUME I"
  • Prokopis Agathokleous ▼
    Key Cast
    "MAN IN STRIPED COSTUME II "
  • Tanja Czichy ▼
    Key Cast
    " CLEMENTINE "
  • Theodoros Michaelides ▼
    Key Cast
    " JOHNNY "
  • Longinos Panagi
    Key Cast
    "BROKEN MAN"
  • Marina Makri ▼
    Key Cast
    " COUNTESS"
  • Paul Stewart ▼
    Key Cast
    " MR. LAWRENCE "
  • Thodoris Pentides ▼
    Key Cast
    "PHOTOGRAPHER"
  • Maria Karasoula ▼
    Key Cast
    " MOTHER"
  • Androula Erakleous ▼
    Key Cast
    "AUNTIE "
  • Thanassis Drakopoulos ▼
    Key Cast
    "DRIVER "
  • Demetris Demetriou ▼
    Key Cast
    " HIGH COMMISSIONER"
  • Alex Von Stieglitz
    Key Cast
    "SERGEANT "
  • Giorgos Pantzis, Monica Nicolaidou
    ASSOCIATE PRODUCER
  • Fabio Canepa
    ASSOCIATE PRODUCER
  • Vangelino Currentzis
    ORIGINAL MUSIC/COMPOSER
  • Andy Bardgily
    SET DESIGNER
  • Mariza Bardgily
    COSTUME DESIGNER
  • Konstantinos Othonos
    DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
  • Alexandra Myta
    MAKE UP ARTIST
  • Marios Neophytou
    HAIR STYLIST
  • Achilleas Andreou
    HAIR STYLIST
  • Alexia Roider
    ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
  • Nicolas Loizou
    ASSISTANT CAMERA
  • Giorgos Potamitis
    SOUND
  • Konstantinos Othonos, Francesco Manzitti
    EDITING
  • Vangelis Lappas
    SOUND EDITOR
  • Panicos Petrides
    COLORIST
  • Project Type:
    Feature
  • Genres:
    Drama
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 25 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    April 1, 2018
  • Production Budget:
    670,000 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Cyprus
  • Country of Filming:
    Cyprus
  • Language:
    English, Modern Greek (1453-)
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital 4K
  • Aspect Ratio:
    2.35
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • Firenze Film Festival
    Firenze
    Italy
    Best Feature Film
Distribution Information
  • Roll-out Vision Services Ltd.
    Country: Cyprus
Director Biography - Longinos Panagi

Longinos Panagi was born in Nicosia in 1970. He studied Journalism in Cyprus and Film Direction in Athens and Prague. He has worked for several years as a film critic for major
magazines and newspapers in Cyprus. “Clementine”, his first feature film, is dealing with the psychological effects of the political division in the island. Apart from cinema, he is experimenting with different literary forms, including poetry, playwriting, short stories and novels. He is a member of the Board of the Cyprus Directors Guild.

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Director Statement

The film is a cinematic comment on how my own generation has witnessed the trauma of war. While we were very small children at that time, we took over the burden of the tragedy, we grew up with false feelings of guilt that did not let us blossom. The idea we have about the events is the result of two kinds of storytelling, typified by the older generation. What did really happen? Who is to blame? How did it all begin? No one really knows, or he is not willing to tell us. The narration of the events has took place by some unknown “Men in Striped Costumes” who make sure that we are still bound into a past we have barely lived. Life is like a broken tape, a record that keeps turning back in the year 1974…
You can hardly tell all these in a realistic way without becoming didactic, occupied by your own ideologies. So, I have chosen to tell this story in a parabolic way, handling the freedom to the viewer, in order to put the missing pieces together. The story maintains a character beyond the specific place and time. Is the time the seventies? Is the place Cyprus? Beyond the sets and the costumes, there are some “alternative” clues: Marlon Brando’s motorcycle, Mastroianni’s sunglasses, a poster from Antonioni’s “Blow-up”, an album cover from the Doors, another poster of David Bowie. All these create a parallel place and time. They are the worlds of music and cinema of an era, where some of the characters dissolve, in order to escape from their little lives on the island. On top of that, a performance of Shakespeare’s “Othello”, with an old, funny “Iago” in the place of the main hero. The unlucky victim, Desdemona, has the face of a mysterious Countess. The only thing we know about her is that she is married to a German Count and that she has a beautiful, little daughter, Clementine. The name is taken from the old traditional song «My darlin’ Clementine», turned into a western by John Ford and revived as a late anthem of Cyprus’ war for independence from the British. Everything is like a game of cards in the hands of the Men in Striped Costumes. But do they really exist?