Greece 1942. In an island across the coast of Asia Minor, a woman finds an injured partisan who wants to leave for Turkey. She helps him with a boat to cross over but they will be caught by the Turks and kept in a camp.Read More »
Petros Fyssoun
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Grigoris Grigoriou – Diogmos AKA Persecution (1964)
Grigoris Grigoriou1961-1970DramaGreeceWar -
Sokrates Kapsaskis & Doris Wishman – O Zestos minas Avgoustos AKA The Hot Month of August (1966)
1961-1970CrimeDoris WishmanDramaGreeceSokrates KapsaskisA chance encounter with an international playboy and a clandestine affair with a cryptic married woman entangle an unsuspecting young man in a well-planned conspiracy. Has anyone emerged unscathed from the unbreakable shackles of passion? (IMDB)Read More »
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Theodoros Angelopoulos – Athina, epistrofi stin Akropoli AKA Athens, Return to the Acropolis (1983)
1981-1990DocumentaryGreeceTheodoros AngelopoulosSynopsis
Angelopoulos was born and grew up in Athens. The Athens that starts from the Acropolis and extends to the small Byzantine churches of the old quarter, the remains of the neo-classical homes, the quiet squares, the apartment buildings, the narrow streets, the vehicles, the pedestrians. It is not a city but the stage on which a drama is being played out, as, of course, is the rest of Greece in the films of Angelopoulos. More specifically, a tragedy made up of treasured memories, stories and personal experience. The poetry of George Seferis, a favourite of the director, supplies the words while the paintings of Tsarouchis provide the images.Read More »