A great man has passed away...

He was born in Pyrgos, Ilia in 1935.
the father a civil servant in the prefecture,
the mother at home with his 3 brothers and him
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in 1948 in the midst of a civil war, the corrupters who ruled arrested his father for not being a corrupter like the rest of them,
they tear him from the prefecture and send him into exile
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Ikaria,
St. Stratis,
Macronissos
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the mother took the children and went up to Athens to get lost in the crowd.
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13 year old Kostas, during the day he works wherever he can to support the house
and at night he goes to night school
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very difficult years
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when he finishes school he goes to enroll in university but he can't,
it can't be done.
you see, he didn't have a social certificate
i.e.
he was not a bribe-taker (only such people were appointed or studied in the post-civil war state)
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so with the door of the university closed, he takes his exams and passes the Film School of Lycurgos Stavrakos
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through the school he is acquainted with holy monsters
such as
Mikis
Orestis Makris
James Campanellis
Gregory Gregoriou
Karolos Koun (who later took him with him to the art theatre)
and many others
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in 1966 during the shooting of a film by Dinos Dimopoulos with a screenplay by Nikos Foskolos «Concerto for machine guns»
meets his co-star, Jenny Karezi and they fall in love at first sight
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during the years of the junta, Kostas tells Campanellis to write a play that runs through the entire Greek history and Campanellis writes “our great circus” which is a huge success
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the security guards parade through the show every night to catch the hidden meanings of the play, but they are such dummies that they can't make sense of it
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the premiere of the show takes place on June 22, 1973 at the theatre «Athinaion» in Patission, almost opposite the Polytechnic
and it goes until October to the people and the insurance people
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in October, the wimps can't hold on any longer...
we are a power, we don't need a tangible reason to arrest them...
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the security guards violently break into the theatre, grab Jenny and Kostas and take them away
in the EAT-EAS where they are tortured
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but they gain nothing and leave them
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in a few days the Polytechnic erupts and they are arrested again
again EAT-ESA
And again.....
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in the post-independence period, Kostas allies himself with the KKE, which he will never renounce
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throughout his life, he never forgot the struggle for democracy and freedom,
the struggle of man against fascism
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Today 13 September 2022 a great man passed away,
Costas Kazakos

Author of the article:

Yannis Golias