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692
01:23:06,360 --> 01:23:10,751
Всё это напряжение...
Всё это давление...

693
01:23:16,800 --> 01:23:21,555
Я помню, это произошло через
четыре месяца, после нашей встречи...

694
01:23:22,000 --> 01:23:24,514
В тот пыльный понедельник.

695
01:23:26,240 --> 01:23:28,629
Мы пошли к твоей матери,
на ужин.

696
01:23:29,360 --> 01:23:32,750
Я ужасно волновалась из-за встречи с ней.

697
01:23:32,960 --> 01:23:36,509
Я хотела произвести хорошее впечатление
и продолжала болтать, как дурочка.

698
01:23:40,960 --> 01:23:45,715
Когда мы уехали, ты отвез меня в свою старую школу.

699
01:23:45,960 --> 01:23:49,032
И рассказывал мне истории из прошлого.

700
01:23:49,320 --> 01:23:53,074
О той девочке из начальной школы.

701
01:23:53,280 --> 01:23:54,793
Я так ревновала.

702
01:23:55,040 --> 01:23:59,397
Потому что мне было жаль,
что я не была той, о ком ты рассказывал.

703
01:24:03,080 --> 01:24:06,152
А потом мы пошли в парк,
ты устроил мне экскурсию.

704
01:24:07,280 --> 01:24:12,149
Мы сидели на скамейке.
В небе было полно воздушных змеев.

705
01:24:13,200 --> 01:24:17,557
И парк наполненный детьми, был восхитительным.

706
01:24:19,160 --> 01:24:23,312
Мы сидели там в течение нескольких часов
ничего не говоря.

707
01:24:24,760 --> 01:24:28,594
И нам ничего не нужно было.

708
01:24:30,760 --> 01:24:35,834
Когда я вернулась домой, я сидела и думала
насколько прекрасным был этот день.

709
01:24:39,280 --> 01:24:44,513
Каждый раз, когда у меня происходили какие-нибудь неприятности, я думала об этом дне...

710
01:24:46,200 --> 01:24:49,237
И верила в то, что смогу пережить это снова

711
01:24:52,560 --> 01:24:57,475
Но так же, как время проходит мимо,
так же отдалялся этот день.

Synopsis
Tungsten deals with the idea of electricity as a metaphor; of all metals in pure form, tungsten has the highest melting point, lowest vapor pressure and the highest tensile strength. It is known for its heat endurance, as well as for its high conductivity. The scenery is urban, and the plot is unfolded during a single day…one day in Athens, continuous outages, and a final blackout caused by the strike of technicians at the electricity company. A day during which six people’s lives are being crossed and diverted, two teenage boys, a ticket inspector, a young couple, immigrants, children, all cornered at the end of a blind alley in the center of Athens. A black and white episodic film with spare, non-liner narration portrays a society on the edge, “forgotten in the dark” as noted by one of the characters. As victims and villains switch roles, a mechanism stronger than their own volition is revealed: the meat grinder of bounced checks, empty bank accounts and bankrupt dreams that moves the action forward to the point of dead end!
Arlington International Film Festival program

Reviews
…The 2011 Greek production Tungsten deals with the life of six people in the course of one day, showing the various intersections of these lives in a rough picture with a subtle blue cast for almost the entire 100 minutes of the film - which explains the title of the film. It makes reference to the type of photographic film balanced for tungsten light - used outdoors, it looks much cooler than reality.
Working within the confines of Athens, director Giorgos Georgopoulos captures the worries of two teenage boys uselessly touring the streets all day long fighting with each other and smoking, a ticket inspector who steals money from one of the two teenage boys, a young man trapped in an elevator during one of the city’s common blackouts due to the electricity company strikes and experiencing a range of feelings from anger to the relief enabling him to sit, smoke and even pee.
There is also a couple facing separation due to the man’s extreme violence against his girlfriend who stays at one of her friends’. In spite of his many attempts to see her, after listening to him she ends up walking away and disappearing into the city’s shoddy peripheries as the blackout starts: a metaphoric scene in which the heroes are in the corner of a dark alley with a huge light at the end of that alley in the background.
The film employs the idea of light versus darkness beautifully, exploiting the contrast to make the blackout ending the day of its six people around the city all the more effective. It won the best director award at the Cyprus International Film Festival and the special jury prize at the Tetouan International Mediterranean Film Festival.
Soha Hesham, Al Ahram