GREEK SHADOW THEATRE-HYVÄÄ ILTA STA FINLANDIKA!!!

A Greek Shadow theatre performance in 1996 by Vassilis Liakos and live background music by Souvlaki kompania and friends. Starring Karagiozis and his little son. After dancing the standard intro happily Karagiozis tries to spell "Hyvää iltaa" which means good evening in Finnish. Of course he fails and his little son Kolitiri tries to criticize his dad's bad finnish accent and he gets back one "batsa" means a hit with the hand...

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Shadow
• Theatre
• Greek
• theatre
• varjoteatteri
• skuggteater
• dockteater
• Θεατρο
• Σκιών
• Καραγκιόζης

[Nightrain80]

huh? isnt it Turkish? :S

[ILIASMIS]

The hero of this clip named Karagiozis, is a very relative character to the Turkish Karagioz. So in a sense yes, this is also Turkish shadow play. However, Shadow theatre has no ethnic identiy. It derives from India or China who "fight" for its origin. Turkie has a great shadow theatre tradition which has spread during the last centuries also to Greece so their performing cast and context is similar. Cheers

[loco9un3poco]

Why is there kalhmera sta Finlandika? Eimai apo tin Finlandia kai AGAPW tin Ellada pragmatika para polu : )

[sazsozben]

/wiki/Karag%C3%B6z_and_Hacivat

I know wiki is not a certain source, but your claim is not true either. This is a nonsense discuss and endless also. I know we cant persuade eachother. I respect your culture and hellenic culture is amazing, but you could maybe try to our culture too. As regards to barbarian word above, I m not obliged to render an acount of my fathers...but a question, what was Iskender doing in the east? Or the others? It is hard to question history isnt it?

[fraoulitsa2009]

yes, the word is turkish. it s maybe inspired by a random word we took during all these years your barbarians were in our lands. but no, this theatre and this hero is hellenic, created by Spatharis.

[sazsozben]

This is turkish! :)

[Nightrain80]

Karagöz means "black eye" in turkish...any mean of "Karagiozis" in greek? i think they are same name, just changed to make it greekize..