Research Catalog

Title

The Kalogeros (Motion picture)

Publication

[1965-67]

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Details

Additional Authors

Haramis, Peter C.

Description

1 reel. 12 min. 433 ft. : sd. b&w.; 16 mm.

Summary

A documentary film about the ritual dance held on the Greek Orthodox "Cheese Monday" in the Macedonian village of Aghia Heleni Serres. The ritual has an archetypal cast of characters including the High Priest, the Kalogeros ("Good old man") who wears a long hairy sack and phallic symbols on his belt and head, the King, the Prince, as well as comic characters. The Kalogeros leads a procession from house to house, the King and Prince offer wine, women throw seeds, villagers joke and play pranks, young men engage in a tug of war, and boys representing calves pull a plow, falling repeatedly to the ground to symbolize union with the earth. Finally the Kalogeros feigns death and is resurrected, representing the triumph of life and fertility over death.

Alternative Title

Dionysiac worship in modern Greece.

Subjects

• Ritual and ceremonial dancing > Macedonia
• Folk dancing > Greece
• Dance > North Macedonia
• Fertility dances
• Ritual and ceremonial dancing > Greece
• Folk dancing > Macedonia
• Motion pictures > The Kalogeros

Note

• The second of two films about Dionysiac worship in modern Greece.
• Subtitle: A dramatic magico-religious phallic custom with evident theatrical elements related to the pre-history of the theatre.
• Photography and direction: Peter Haramis. Commentary written by Katerina Kakouri. Narration: David Grozier.

Call Number

*MGZHB 8-1313

OCLC

NYPY757032885-F

Title

The Kalogeros (Motion picture)

Imprint

[1965-67]

Local Subject

Motion pictures. The Kalogeros.

Fertility dances.

Ritual and ceremonial dancing -- Macedonia.

Folk dancing -- Macedonia.

Local Subject

Ritual and ceremonial dancing -- Greece.

Added Author

Haramis, Peter C. Director

Added Title

Dionysiac worship in modern Greece.

Research Call Number

*MGZHB 8-1313