Antonis Kafetzopoulos

  • Nikos Vergitsis – Revanche (1983)

    1981-1990ArthouseDramaGreeceNikos Vergitsis

    During the night of the big earthquake that shook Athens in 1981, Yannis, a 30-year-old cinephile, falls in love with his best friend Yorgos’ girl who allows him to sleep next to her holding her breast. Yannis and Eva have to overcome Yorgos’ jealousy as well as the ups and downs of their own affair. Since they all seem to be suffering, they form a trio that manages to live together in harmony but then a well-hidden secret from the men’s political activism in the past is about to hit them like a new earthquake.Read More »

  • Dimitris Panayiotatos – I nyhta me ti Silena AKA The Night with Silena (1986)

    1981-1990Dimitris PanayiotatosFilm NoirGreeceRomance

    Christos is secretly in love with a girl who lives in the opposite appartment. He follows her night and day even though they’ve never met. One night, he sees her at a party making love with a young man. The scene, the images, are carved in his memory. A few years later, Christos meets outside of a bar a mysterious woman, called Silena. Her resemblance to the girl of his youth is astonishing. Christos invites Silena to his house to spend one night with her. One night that will change his life forever.Read More »

  • Apostolos C. Doxiadis – Terirem (1987)

    1981-1990Apostolos C. DoxiadisArthouseDramaGreece

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    The mute wife (Olia Lazaridou) of a shadow-theater player (Antonis Kafetzopoulos) is suffering from cancer. An old woman, guided by her visions, discovers a Byzantine religious icon buried in a field. Her nephew sells the find to a thief, who then murders the old woman, without knowing that she had told the village priest about the holy icon she found. Two priests arrive in the village together with the puppeteer and his ailing wife, and there the wife sees a vision of the icon and where it was located in the field, which leads to the discovery of the bones of a saint. The wife sleeps on the spot where the holy relics were discovered and, upon awaking the following morning, regains her speech. Read More »

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