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Contemporary Greek Cinema
Vasiliki | Drama | 1997
A love story set against the backdrop of the Greek countryside, during a time when intolerance and other consequences of the Civil War decisively influence both individual development and relationships with the social environment. A commentary on the human desire to live freely and the right to love, dream, and hope.
Screenplay-director: Vangelis Serdaris
Cast: Paschalis Tsarouhas, Tamila Koulieva, Michalis Iatropoulos, Vasilis Papanikas, Vivian Kontomari
Orpheus Descending | Drama | 1996
Eurydice is a singer in a band that plays music at traditional summer festivals. She is persuaded to follow Panos, a wealthy merchant in Athens, who is willing to finance her career and make her famous. Soon, disappointed by his behavior, she returns to her old job and discovers that Orpheus, a humble shepherd who plays the clarinet, has made the band popular with the power of his art. However, Panos, enraged by her abandonment and financially ruined, follows her, ready to claim her back at any cost…
Screenplay: Giorgos Zervoulakos, Nikiforos Markakis
Director: Giorgos Zervoulakos
Cast: Vana Barba, Nikos Xanthopoulos, Michalis Papangelidis, Christos Kalavrouzos, Anestis Vlachos and others.
Silent | Drama | 2015
Dido, a young soprano and second daughter of an intellectual family, loses her voice to a rare illness (hysterical laryngitis) and isolates herself in the empty family home. No one knows if she really can’t talk or if she refuses to. People close to her are embarrassed but also alarmed by her behavior. They are unable to distinguish what is normal and what is not when they see her. They are themselves distorted by the hysteria of an era that treats the heroine’s silence as a disease. And while Dido tries to heal herself, the people around her make her even sicker. The film has won Best Film Award of the International Association of Critics (FIPRESCI) in the International Competition of the 56th Thessaloniki International Film Festival 2015.
Director-screenplay: Giorgos Gikapeppas
Cast: Kika Georgiou, Aneza Papadopoulou, Ilektra Nikolouzou, Omiros Poulakis, Manos Vakousis and others.
Purgatory | Drama | 2022
A girl is rescued from prostitution, into which her father forces her. The remains of a Molotov cocktail attack. The travelogue of an old man with dementia and a potentially diligent policewoman. A couple in search of love. A woman expresses her anger to a civil servant. A man kidnaps his best friend.
Cast: Maria Zorba, Thodoris Katsafados, Giannis Kokiasmenos, Kostas Baras, Nefeli Kouri, Vaggelis Psomas, and others
Screenplay: Vasilis Mazomenos, Vasilis Goudelis
Director: Vasilis Mazomenos
Classic Greek Cinema
Vacations in Aegina | Drama | 1958
A widowed journalist, Tzonis, and his pampered daughter Aliki, go on holiday to Aegina. At the port, Aliki thinks that Jean – a charming young man from a noble family on the island – is a porter and this mistake is the reason for an unexpected game of love games.
Screenplay-director: Andreas Lambrinos
Cast: Aliki Vougiouklaki, Andreas Barkoulis, Lambros Konstantaras, Eleni Chalkousi, Michalis Kakogiannis, and others.
Nights at Miramare | Comedy | 1960
The sisters of an emir are on holiday in Rhodes, where they fall in love with two poor young friends who don’t know who they are. The sons of a businessman court two photographic models, believing them to be the sisters of the emir. When the emir arrives in Rhodes, the misunderstandings will be resolved, but the two friends will not be able to marry his sisters.
Screenplay: Nestor Matsas
Director: Orestis Laskos
Cast: Smaroula Giouli, Depi Martini, Rita Mousouri, Kostas Prekas, Vangelis Voulgaridis, Zozo Sapountzaki, etc.
An Imbecile | Comedy | 1959
A naive man is trapped by a cunning widow, who lives lavishly thanks to her supposedly dead husband’s insurance money. When the latter appears in the flesh, she will have her benevolent friend kill him and he will end up in court, where he will eventually be acquitted on the grounds of stupidity. A film adaptation of the homonym theatrical comedy by Dimitris Psathas.
Screenplay-director: Giannis Dalianidis
Cast: Christos Efthimiou, Rika Dialyna, Dionysis Papagiannopoulos, Andreas Barkoulis, Marika Nezer, and others.
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