Giannis in the Cities

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Θολός βυθός
Director Eleni Alexandrakis
Country Greece
Runtime 90
Year 2024
Language Greek
Premiere World Premiere

Synopsis

1949, towards the end of the Greek Civil War. Yannis, the son of a rebel, is torn from his village and deported to the Childcare Cities where his ideas and desires are manipulated. Nightmares and dark feelings for his father slowly inhabit his heart. Only when he reaches adulthood does he redefine his existence, so he decides to go and meet the man. Based on the life story of Greek writer Yannis Atzakas.

Screenings

19:00

John Cassavetes

Monday 4.11.
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16:00

John Cassavetes

Tuesday 5.11.
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Cast and crew

Cast Philippos Milikas, Marios Konstantinos Galetzas, Konstantinos Athanassakis, Aineias Tsamatis, Agni Stroumbouli, Stelios Mainas, Evi Saoulidou, Aglaia Papa, Konstantinos Seiradakis, Katia Leclerc O'Wallis, Katia Goulioni, Evdoxia Androulidakis, Themis Panou, Maria Kallimani, Andreas Marianos, Manolis Mavromatakis
Producer Eleni Alexandrakis
Writer Eleni Alexandrakis, Panayotis Evangelidis
Cinematographer Dionysis Efthymiopoulos
Editor Christos Giannakopoulos
Music Nikos Xydakis
Sound Nikos Papadimitriou
Makeup Mary Stavrakaki
Costume design Despina Chimona
Sets designer Yorgos Georgiou
Production Pomegranate Films 2
Co-production Alatas Films, Authorwave, Tamarisk, Greek Film Centre, ERT SA, EKOME SA / Sponsored by: DSHOP
Co-producer Kostas Alatas, Panos Bisdas, Christos Giannakopoulos

Feelgood Entertainment, (Irini Souganidou, [email protected])





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Eleni Alexandrakis

She was born in 1957 in Athens. She studied Cinema at Sorbonne (Paris I, graduated in 1980) and at the National Film and TV School in the United Kingdom (and graduated in 1985). She writes, directs, and produces fiction and documentary films, guided by the belief there is no difference between the two. Her films have won several awards in Greece and abroad.

1990 The Children of Greece (TV)
1994 Tonia Marketaki (short doc)
1995 A Drop in the Ocean 
1999 Easter is in the Air (doc)
2002 About the Holy and Mysterious Myhr (doc)
2018 Costis Papagiorgis, the Sweetest Misanthrope (doc)
2019 Angel and the Weightlifter
2022 Uprootings (doc)
2024 Giannis in the Cities

Online screenings: 5/11/2024 - 10/11/2024

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