It is 1936 in Greece, shortly before the Metaxas’ dictatorship. Read More »
Tag Archives: Greek
Vertigo AKA Iligos (1963) Giannis Dalianidis, Zoi Laskari, Alekos Alexandrakis, Voula Zouboulaki
By a twist of fate, Elli Kapralou, a 19-year-old temptress caught in the intoxicating Read More »
The Rape AKA Amok (1963) Dinos Dimopoulos, Floretta Zana, Lefteris Vournas, Anna Veneti
On a silent and seemingly ordinary night somewhere in early-1950s Greece Read More »
We Have Only One Life AKA Mia zoi tin ehoume (1958) Yorgos Javellas, Yvonne Sanson, Dimitris Horn, Vasilis Avlonitis
Kleon is a poor man trying to make his living with a small job at a bank. Read More »
Maiden’s Cheek AKA To xylo vgike apo ton Paradeiso (1959) Alekos Sakellarios, Aliki Vougiouklaki, Dimitris Papamichael, Hristos Tsaganeas
Young teacher Floras arrives to teach a class at a girls’ high school in Athens. Read More »
Help Its Vengos Visible Agent ‘000’ AKA Voitheia o Vengos faneros praktor ‘000’ (1967) Thanasis Vengos, Zannino, Dimitris Nikolaidis
Following in the footsteps of the greatest secret agent of all time, the extraordinary James Bond Read More »
A Foolish Love AKA Oi apenanti (1981) Giorgos Panousopoulos, Betty Livanou, Aris Retsos, Giorgos Siskos
The story of a young man who every day watches the inhabitants of the apartment across the street. Read More »
The Attack of the Giant Mousaka AKA I epithesi tou gigantiaiou mousaka (1999) Panos H. Koutras, Giannis Angelakis, Christos Mantakas, Myriam Vourou
On the verge of the new millennium, against the backdrop of the starry Athenian sky Read More »
Never on Sunday AKA Pote tin Kyriaki (1960) Jules Dassin, Melina Mercouri, Giorgos Foundas
Illia is Piraeus’s most popular person: an energetic prostitute, full of life and good humor. Read More »
The Hunters AKA Oi kynigoi (1977) Theodoros Angelopoulos, Vangelis Kazan, Eva Kotamanidou, Giorgos Danis
It is New Year’s Eve. 1976. On a Greek island a party of bourgeois hunters comes upon a body Read More »