LA BELLE (Takis Spetsiotis, 1977)
Category: Cinema > Films
| French title: | ΚΑΛΛΟΝΗ |
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| Director: | Takis Spetsiotis |
| Release date: | 1977 |
| Genre: | Short Film | Experimental | Queer |
| IMDb: | https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077993/ |
Censorship incidents
| 1977 | Rejection of the film LA BELLE (Takis Spetsiotis, 1977) from the Thessaloniki Film Anti-Festival
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| 1977 | Ban on the film LA BELLE (Takis Spetsiotis, 1977)
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Description
Starring Nikos Mouratidis –now a famous TV personality–, LA BELLE was a short silent film that nowadays would be classified as “gender performance”. Mouratidis appears wearing a blonde wig and garters, posing sensually and caressing himself, as a parody of both pin-up girls of the 1950s and homosexual identity. The film was not granted a screening license, and it was rejected by the preliminary committee of the Thessaloniki Film Anti-Festival in 1977 on the grounds of being “decadent” and “inartistic”.
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Sources – Bibliography
- Eleftherotypia, 27/4/2009.
