Elli’s mother is sick and the family is poor. Elli’s stepfather, a small time crook Read More »
Tag Archives: Greece
Blood on the Land (1965) Vasilis Georgiadis
Under the scorching sun of June in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Thessaly, Odysseas Chormovas–the untamed Read More »
Alloimono stous neous (1961) Alekos Sakellarios
Two rich old friends, Andreas and Agisilaos are in love with young Rita. Read More »
Excursion (1966) Takis Kanellopoulos, Lili Papayanni, Kostas Karagiorgis, Angelos Antonopoulos
The love story between a captain’s wife and his sergeant which has a tragic ending. Read More »
Plato’s Academy / Akadimia Platonos (2009) Filippos Tsitos, Antonis Kafetzopoulos, Anastasis Kozdine, Titika Sarigouli
Stavros, a Greek shopkeeper cares for his aging mother after a stroke. Read More »
Deep End (2008) Thanasis Antoniou, Kostas Sommer, Alekos Sissovitis, Maria Korinthiou
Maria cannot stand her husband’s jealousy any more. He treats her in a violent way Read More »
Blind Date / Randevou me mia agnosti (1968) Vasilis Georgiadis, Elena Nathanail, Giannis Voglis, Dimitris Myrat
Christina is a Prosecutor’s wife who lives in an old mansion by the sea, in a remote city where her husband’s work has brought them. Read More »
Open Letter / Anoihti epistoli (1967) Yiorgos Stamboulopoulos, Nikiforos Naneris, Eleni Theofilou, Betty Arvaniti
Dimitris, a shy and not ambitious 30-year-old bourgeois, is struggling against his past Read More »
Days of ’36 / Meres tou ’36 (1972) Theodoros Angelopoulos, Vangelis Kazan, Kostas Pavlou, Thanos Grammenos
It is 1936 in Greece, shortly before the Metaxas’ dictatorship. Read More »
Vertigo / 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 »