Costas Messaris

Sans le sou et sans avenir, un professeur d'anglais accepte de donner des cours particuliers à une femme choyée, pour se retrouver empêtré dans une réalité étrange. Une spirale sans fin de désir et d'illusion, de culpabilité et de mépris de soi. La vérité lui rendra-t-il sa liberté ?

During the cold spring of 1941, with Greece already under German occupation, a long-suffering squad of war-battered soldiers receives orders from the headquarters in Athens to fall back, leaving behind the Albanian Front. As the men retreat through the snow-covered landscapes of the bomb-scarred Greek countryside, the terrifying certainty that nothing will ever be the same again crushes their weary human souls.

De 1939 à 1952, une troupe de comédiens sillonne les petites villes de Grèce pour donner des représentations. Lorsque la Seconde Guerre mondiale éclate, la comédie naïve qu’ils jouaient alors est vite remplacée par une tragédie. Malgré l’oppression politique et les drames qui se jouent entre les membres de la troupe, les comédiens continueront de jouer et de résister jusqu’au bout.

In Cyprus, an EOKA fighter (against the British Administration), Kyriakoulis, is imprisoned by the British. His comrades kidnap the son of a friend of the British Administrator in retaliation. Plans to help Kyriakoulis escape fails and the British hang him. Kyriakoulis mother intervenes magnanimously and the fighters free their prisoner.

A provincial café owner, Mimis, abandons his village in Chalkidiki and comes to Athens in search of a better life. He pretends to be a tough guy, a know-it-all, and behaves like an “antisocial”. With the help of a friend of his from the army, Aristeidis, he tries to set up his own business. At the same time, he falls in love with a seamstress, Toula, who is the sister of Aristeidis’ wife. Then comes the wedding, the everyday obligations, and Mimis is forced, with great resentment, to work as a waiter to make ends meet. When he get fired, however, his relationship with Nitsa is put to the test.

The story of Ioannis Zachos, a young psychopath who commits a murder in Athens.