The Delphic Festivals, the historical performances of Angelos Sikelianos, were also captured on film by Dimos Vratsanos in collaboration with Greece’s valuable friend and manager of the French Insti...
This is possibly the first melodrama in Greek cinema. A young girl loses her father and is forced by her heartless uncle into a life of poverty and deprivation, as he takes over her fortune and spends...
A film based on of text of Angelos Sikelianos from the Delphic Festivals, inspired by the Aeschylus tragedy of the same name. It was the first feature film on Ancient Drama. The filming started in 192...
An indigent provincial girl comes to Athens to work as a maid in the mansion where her father also works. The latter wins the lottery, and, unexpectedly, their life changes for the better.
This is the first Greek religious film: the story of a young woman who studies in a Cycladic monastery and envisions the passion of Christ. The filming was never completed, but later on, with the use ...
Villar gets a job at a dry cleaner’s and wanders through Athens. He makes one gaffe after the other and gets involved in various adventures.
Comedy along the lines of the French and American films, with the lead played by Nikolaos Sfakianos, who later developed into a big star of the Greek cinema in the interwar period.
1. INTRODUCTION: VILLAR’S MORNING AWAKENING We see Villar waking up in a cow’s trough. The title reads: "Villar, newly arrived from Paris, wakes up early in the morning and steps out of his comfor...
PRINTED MATTER ENTITLED “THE UPHILL ROAD TO CALVARY” BY DIMOS VRATSANOS