Great Moments of Greek cinema

Director:Theodoros Aggelopoulos

The plot:"A," a Greek filmmaker living in exile in the United States, returns to his native Ptolemas to attend a special screening of one of his extremely controversial films. But A's real interest lies elsewhere--the mythical reels of the very first film shot by the Manakia brothers, who, at the dawn of the age of cinema, tirelessly "A," a Greek filmmaker living in exile in the United States, returns to his native Ptolemas to attend a special screening of one of his extremely controversial films. But A's real interest lies elsewhere--the mythical reels of the very first film shot by the Manakia brothers, who, at the dawn of the age of cinema, tirelessly criss-crossed the Balkans and, without regard for national and ethnic strife, recorded the region's history and customs. Did these primitive, never-developed images really exist? If so, where are they? - "Why 'A'? It's an alphabetical choice. Every filmmaker remembers the first time he looked through the viewfinder of a camera. It is a moment that is not so much the discovery of cinema, but the discovery of the world. But there comes a moment when the filmmaker begins to doubt his own capacity to see things, when he no longer knows if his gaze is right and innocent."

Director:Nikos Koundouros

Director:Vasilis Georgiadis
Nominated for Academy Award (Best Foreign Language Film

The List:
WINNER
8½ - Italy
NOMINEES
Nóz w wodzie - Poland
Los Tarantos - Spain
Τα κόκκινα φανάρια - Greece
Koto - Japan

Director:Giorgos Lanthimos
Nominated for Academy Award (Best Foreign Language Film)

The plot:Three teenagers are confined to an isolated country estate that could very well be on another planet. The trio spend their days listening to endless homemade tapes that teach them a whole new vocabulary. Any word that comes from beyond their family abode is instantly assigned a new meaning. Hence 'the sea' refers to a large armchair a Three teenagers are confined to an isolated country estate that could very well be on another planet. The trio spend their days listening to endless homemade tapes that teach them a whole new vocabulary. Any word that comes from beyond their family abode is instantly assigned a new meaning. Hence 'the sea' refers to a large armchair and 'zombies' are little yellow flowers. Having invented a brother whom they claim to have ostracized for his disobedience, the uber-controlling parents terrorize their offspring into submission. The father is the only family member who can leave the manicured lawns of their self-inflicted exile, earning their keep by managing a nearby factory, while the only outsider allowed on the premises is his colleague Christina, who is paid to relieve the son of his male urges. Tired of these dutiful acts of carnality, Christina enlists the elder daughter for some girl-on-girl action, carelessly disturbing the domestic balance. Soon enough, sex has spread throughout the household like fire. Next stop: rebellion.

Director:Dinos Dimopoulos

Director:Theodoros Aggelopoulos

The plot:A film about a political refugee who returns to Greece almost forty years after the Civil War.Thus begins the voyage in the landscapes of love, death, imagination and memory. Cythera, both an island and a painting, constitutes a utopia, while the course of the film follows personal experiences, existential anxiety and the traces of th A film about a political refugee who returns to Greece almost forty years after the Civil War.Thus begins the voyage in the landscapes of love, death, imagination and memory. Cythera, both an island and a painting, constitutes a utopia, while the course of the film follows personal experiences, existential anxiety and the traces of the history of the last decades. Everything is changing, with the result that the old communist feels exiled in his own homeland. Heard over the ashes of past dreams, are the strains of a sad elegy for a lost generation and a lost time, for the crisis in creativity and the essential content of humanism.

Director:Theodoros Aggelopoulos
Starring:Bruno Ganz,Isabelle Renauld,Despoina Bebedeli

The plot:Eternity and a Day traces the final days of Alexandre, a celebrated Greek writer as he prepares to leave his seaside home forever. While packing, he finds a letter from his long-dead wife, Anna, who wrote about an enchanted summer day they spent thirty years ago. From that point, Alexandre embarks on a mystical journey through his past and present. Realizing that after spending his entire life chasing after the words of poems and novels, Alexandre wants one final chance to capture the lost precious moments of true happiness, even if only for one day.

Director:Panos H.Koutras

The plot:George is released from prison after 14 years of incarceration for a murder he committed in his small Greek village. He spends his first night out in a cheap downtown hotel in Athens. There he meets Strella, a young transsexual prostitute. They spend the night together and soon they fall in love. But the past is catching up with George. With Strella on his side he will have to find a new way out.

Director:Mihalis Kakogiannis
Starring:Melina Mercouri,Giorgos Foundas

Director:Yannis Economides
Starring:Errikos Litsis,Vangelis Mourikis,Maria Nafpliotou

Director:Pantelis Voulgaris
Executive Producer:Marin Scorsese

The plot:Set in 1922, is the story of a mail order bride, one of 700, aboard the SS KING ALEXANDER, who falls in love with an American photographer. She is bound for her new husband, in New York; he is on his way home to a failed marriage.

Director:Pantelis Voulgaris
The plot:Three stories with a common denominator.

An archaeologist after a recent discovery, looking for friends and colleagues of his son who committed suicide in the army a year ago.
A team of ornithologists went to the Ebro Delta to observe the last LWfG who has fled to the river, with the help of an elderly warden.
A middle-aged industrialist visits the local entertainment clubs,"bouzoukia", in the countryside and drinks to forget as his wife took their two small children and left.

Director:Constantine Giannaris
The plot:Middle August in Athens. Three families, living in a three storey building, leave for their summer vacations. Everyone is wishing for a miracle to happen this summer. In the meantime, a drifter breaks into their apartments and rummages their personal belongings, thus unfolding hidden secrets.

Director:Theodoros Aggelopoulos
Starring:Marcelo Mastroianni,Jeanne Moreau
The plot: On assignment in a small border town, a young reporter is investigating the arrival of refugees who have secretly fled their homeland. He notices a man among them whom he believes is a Greek politician who had disappeared several years earlier. The circumstances surrounding his disappearance and the reasons for it have remained a myst On assignment in a small border town, a young reporter is investigating the arrival of refugees who have secretly fled their homeland. He notices a man among them whom he believes is a Greek politician who had disappeared several years earlier. The circumstances surrounding his disappearance and the reasons for it have remained a mystery.

Director:Mihalis Kakogiannis
Starring:Anthony Quinn,Alan Bates,Irene Papas
Nominated for 7 Oscars
Winner of 3:Best supporing Actress:Lila Kedrova
Best Art Direction (Black-and-White):Vassilis Photopoulos
Best Cinematography (Black-and-White):Walter Lassally

The plot:An uptight English writer traveling to Crete on a matter of business finds his life changed forever when he meets the gregarious Alexis Zorba.

Director:Alekos Alexandrakis
Starring:Alekos Alexandrakis,Mnos Katrakis.
The plot:The lives of a slum in Athens, while living in an extreme misery, always dreaming of a better world. An authentic Greek neorealistic film, banned for a while because of the bad image of the Greek reality, which dares to show.

Yorgos Javellas
Starring:Irene Pappas,Manos Katrakis and Maro Kodou

Director:Vasilis Georgiadis
Starring:Nikos Kourkoulos,Manos Katrakis,Mairi Xronopoulou,Giannis Voglis and Faidon Georgitsis.
Nominated for Academy Award (Best Foreign Language Film)

Director:Alexis Damianos
Starring:Maria Vassiliou,Giorgos Koutouzis

Director:Costas Ferris
Starring:Sotiria Leonardou,Nikos Kalogeropoulos and Themis Bazaka

Yorgos Tzavellas

Starring:Vasillis Logothetidis,Mimis Photopoulos,Elli Lambeti Dimitris Horn and Orestis Makris