A night watchman (Giorgos Fountas) falls for a nightclub singer (Katerina Theochari) in Troumpa and persuades her to live with him and give up the nightlife. When, however, she discovers that he’s ...
In 1936, the balance between centrist and right-wing political forces that support the Metaxas regime is undermined by the hostage-taking of lawyer and right-wing MP Kontaxis. In a square, a union mem...
This is an adaptation of the comedy by Aristophanes. In ancient Athens, the men are absorbed by the war with Sparta and neglect their wives and their homes. Fed up with this situation, the women decid...
Manousos (Nikos Xanthopoulos) is the eldest child of a poor and large family living in rural Greece. When he completes his military duty, he decides to work in Athens to help his mother (Eleni Zafeiro...
A movie director takes a tour of the turbulent Balkan peninsula, and, like another Ulysses, he makes a return trip through memory and the skeins of recent history. A quest involving the old Greek urba...
1. TITLES
OPENING TITLES)
10. ESCALATION OF VIOLENT CLASHES IN THE STREETS – STREETS ARE FILLED WITH RAGING FIRES AND CASUALTIES
We are at the spinning mills, with very few strike-breakers and ...
Vassilis (Nikos Xanthopoulos) is a singer, struggling to support his mother and sister and to find his father, who disappeared during the evacuation of Smyrna. One day, he finds out that his father is...
A young literature teacher is appointed to a school in a distant mountain village in the Peloponnese. Myrtaios, the previous, now-deceased teacher, has left behind the reputation of being a great writ...