Le Soleil et l'Ombre - Pour Nikos Kazantzaki

This made-for-tv movie has been neglected by the critics and is shown only seldom, but it is an important link in the relationship between Pollet and Greece. It is shot in 16mm film, and is the portrait of the Greek author Nikos Kazantzakis, who died in 1957. Besides including a radio interview of the author, numerous people who knew him (from his widow, Helene Kazantzakis to Ado Kyrou) are interviewed, and Maurice Ronet reads the poem The Exaltation throughout the movie. Anticipating a practical and theoretical method that will characterize his later works (from Contretemps to Dieu sait quoi), Pollet includes clips from his own previous films, Méditeranée and Bassae.

"It was commissioned to me and I really liked making it, working with my friend Maurice Ronet. I shot it in Switzerland, where Kazantzakis widow lived"
(J.-D. Pollet)