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Companion of the Dead

We see the diaries of three young artists in a modern world.
A painter tries to paint the portrait of his dead wife.
A young woman searches for her lost sister. An optimistic girl realizes that she has no place in an unfriendly society.
The protagonists share openly their experiences in Life, Death and Love. Personal defections, fears and troubles that stop them from being internally complete. On the contrary, a mad scientist undertakes the task to formulate a filter that will offer unlimited possibilities of control over the human mind. A dark community patronizes him to achieve it.
In the meantime, a dead woman and a fox come from parallel dimensions to complete their missions.

  • George Louridas
    Director
  • George Louridas
    Writer
  • George Stamatiou
    Producer
  • Nektarios Moutevelis
    Producer
  • George Louridas
    Producer
  • George Mamolis
    Producer
  • Anna Lemeshchenko
    Key Cast
    "Dead Woman"
  • Elia Rader
    Key Cast
    "The painter"
  • Petra Mavridi
    Key Cast
    "Florence"
    Think of something blue
  • Martina Demopoulou
    Key Cast
    "Ophelia"
    The Bachelor 2
  • Alexandra Saifi
    Key Cast
    "Miss Marie"
    Caillebotis, Contingences
  • Melianna Makari
    Key Cast
    "Girl with camera / The Fox"
  • Tatiana Gomez Contreras
    Key Cast
    "Girl passing"
    La sculpture vivante, Whenever I'm Alone with You
  • Fanny Georgakaki
    Key Cast
    "Actress"
    In times of peace
  • Elyes Dorbo
    Key Cast
    "The scientist"
  • Teodora de Pedro
    Key Cast
    "Interviewer"
  • Michel Dupré
    Direction of Photography
    Pizza Pepperoni
  • George Louridas
    Direction of Photography
  • Cyril Brigouleix
    Lighting
    Pizza Pepperoni
  • Maximilien Cascarino
    Lighting
    Moule-Bite
  • Pierre Lepetit
    Sound
    Pizza Pepperoni
  • Rozanna Bayia
    Sound
    Piece of Sky
  • Gina Iliopoulou
    Costumes
  • Olivier Sandilands
    Original Music
  • Chris Christakopoulos-Mavrakis
    Casting Director
  • Bulldog Audiovisuel
    Administrative Advice
    My Life with James Dean
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    La Compagne Des Morts
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Feature
  • Genres:
    Avant-Garde
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 12 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    June 24, 2018
  • Production Budget:
    15,000 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Greece
  • Country of Filming:
    France, Greece
  • Language:
    English, French, Modern Greek (1453-)
  • Shooting Format:
    Pro Res 4:4:4
  • Aspect Ratio:
    2:35 : 1
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Hellas FilmBox Berlin Festival
    Berlin
    Germany
    January 19, 2019
    German Premiere
    Official Selection / New Vision
  • Les Rimbaud du Cinéma
    Charleville-Mézières - Ardennes
    France
    October 19, 2019
    French Premiere
Director Biography - George Louridas

George is a movie and theater director. Also an aspiring writer.
He studied film making in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and in Université de Picardie Jules Verne.
In 2015 he created his own film production company named "Dead Company".

Filmography

2019 Director of Photography in the short film " Nefeli " (11'), Athens

2019 Director in short Animation film " The Skeletons " (1' 30'')

2019 Director & Writer in his medium length film " Inside the sheer nostalgia of a lullaby " (36'), Edinburgh, Scotland

2018 Director & Writer in his first feature film " La Compagne Des Morts " (72'), France & Greece

Other notable activities

2019 Director & Producer in the original theater performance "The Old Hare"

2018 - 2016 Online Judge for the Watersprite film festival, Oxford, UK

2017 Contribution in the feature film " Sujet Libre " by Stella Theodorakis, as Production Assistance

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Director Statement

"This movie is dedicated to all the wrongfully-dead artists of the past and the ones of the present who strive to share their vision and try to find their place in Europe.

It was made as an hommage to the cursed poets Arthur Rimbaud and Charles Baudelaire.

"La Compagne Des Morts" ("Companion of the Dead") is a story divided in three parts. We see the diaries that three young artists narrate.
Each protagonist files his/her/it personal defections, confesses his/her/it daily fears and despairs.

Like Edvard Munch’s painting “The Scream”, the movie, inspired by this ode to despair of the modern man, focuses in his defective system of communication.

There are dark figures that sabotage us from within, invisible deficiencies that impede our lives from being complete."

"The Companion of the Dead" was the last feature film starring the late French actress Alexandra Saifi. She died of a heart attack in August 2020.