Two Suns in the Sky

The conflict between Hellenism and Christianity at the dawn of a new world

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A book in which Christianity and Hellenism clash against the background of Byzantium!

Violence, heresies, Ideological battles conspiracies and power games, as a theater of History, in the area of Antioch. In the great tradition of films that are attracted by the strange, as well as the two-way relationship of "persecutor-persecuted", but outside of the Greek cinematographic tradition that has avoided touching on the sensitive issue of the conflict between Hellenism and Christianity in Byzantine Greece, the director Giorgos Stamboulopoulos presented to early 90s a ground-breaking work of art.

Placing the action of his film at the end of the 4th century AD, in Byzantium torn between East and West, between the twilight of the Gods and the rise of God, the director successfully acrobats on the edge of grand spectacle and philosophical reflection, without ever letting the specifications of the first stifle the second.

Two Suns in the sky. Two characters representing different worlds, the persecutor of the Gentiles, Lazarus the Cappadocian and the leader of the Dionysian troupe, Timotheus the Stage, act in an unusual landscape of domestic cinema, where the director does not hesitate to bring to the fore conflicting elements of Greek identity that they plague our country to this day.

The hardcover collector's edition of a cinematic adventure between spectacle and philosophical reflection, set against a vibrant landscape of drama and redemption.

Author Biography

Ο George Stampoulopoulos (Director – Screenwriter – Producer) was born in Athens in 1936. For over a decade (1956-1967), he worked as first assistant director or production manager in more than fifty Greek films or foreign productions shot in Greece. The filming of his first film OPEN LETTER is marked by the declaration of the dictatorship in April 1967. The film, which was smuggled into the Locarno Festival in 1968 and won the prize of the International Federation of Film Critics (Fipresci), was rejected the following year by the junta committee of the Thessaloniki Festival. Throughout the dictatorship, he refrained from any creative film activity and engaged, for a living, in the production and direction of commercial films. In the period 1980-2006, he made four more films (BACK TO GLORY TRAVA, ATTENTION DANGER, TWO SUNS IN THE SKY and PANDORA). He is an Honorary member of the Hellenic Film Academy. He is married to the painter Julia Andreadou and has two children, a daughter and a son.

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