Giannis Kafaloukos

A surreal, anarchic and plotless movie about a man who tries to take up his dead father's business, taking aim against contemporary Greek reality. Banned by the Greek dictatorship.

An adaptation of one of the greatest greek novellas ('The Murderess' by Alexandros Papadiamantis). Fragkogiannou (Maria Alkaiou), a hard-done by, deranged woman after a life full of hardship, recalls the past by her newborn girl grandchild’s crib. Her mother was a wicked woman and one of her sons was a criminal. Lost in a haze, she strangles the baby as she is concvinced that girls can cause their family only trouble. Later, she lets a little girl drown in a well, while she drowns three other little girls, one of whom is a newborn baby. This is her way of sparing children and parents of the inevitable suffering in life.

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.