Κώστας Αποστολίδης

Au début du XXIe siècle, un réalisateur américain d'origine grecque, appelé A., arrive à Rome pour y tourner un film sur l'histoire de sa mère, Eleni. Ses parents, Eleni et Spyros, se sont rencontrés dans un train et dans l'immédiate après-guerre. Ils ont été séparés après la mort de Staline, en Russie. Alors qu'elle était enceinte, Eleni a été déportée dans un camp en Sibérie. Elle s'y est éprise d'un autre zek, Jacob. A. continue de travailler à son film. Sa vie personnelle n'est pas des plus gaies non plus. Sa fille, une autre Eleni, refuse de lui parler et fait une fugue. Eleni et Spyros rendent visite à A. Leur hôtel est dévalisé…

A family story of incest, decadence and desolation. Greece, early twentieth century. A bourgeois family is on the verge of breaking up. The mother has abandoned the family, and the father, a retired officer, keeps his three daughters, as well as the illegitimate son of the oldest daughter, confined in the house. After his death, the three sisters live through their personal drama. The eldest, Eleni, imbued with the morals of the time and closely identifying with her father, tries to take his place. The middle one, Maria, representing rebellion, goes off with a captain of the sanitation service, while the youngest, Anna, skating on thin ice through all this, is completely destroyed.

Nikos and Elena know each other since they were children. The film follows them in six different phases of their lives. In each one, however, something always prevents them from becoming a couple. How will their story end?

A gifted electrician, Michalis Karamanos works for Greek Telecommunications Organization and it seems that he is the only one who hasn't been completely absorbed by the corrupt and all-devouring system. Acting as a member of the revolutionary organization Constitutional Struggle, which is fighting against the unpopular policy of the government, he connects the computer of the director of OTE to an explosive device. He threatens to destroy the telecommunications of the country if he is not allowed to broadcast on television his revolutionary message during the broadcast of an important football game. The Authorities, thinking that he has gone crazy, try to bring him around using his old friends from the army, whom they pick up one by one as intermediaries. This is a situation comedy with excellent, mature plot development, plenty of suspense as well as masterful criticism of sociopolitical reality.

Something changes in the relationship of Achilleas and Anna when she starts to dream vividly and insists on relating her dreams to her husband. He is a barrister in the middle of an important murder trial and his temper becomes frayed with Anna's seeming indifference and involvement and preoccupation with her dream world.

A story of revenge and a betrayed friendship.

A woman decides to work as nanny in the house of a rich theater director and his three children.