Movies: Thanos Anastopoulos

This is not an easy mystery to solve in all its subtleties. In the last paragraph, I give my take on the characters. I won't give away the principal spoiler. Still, if you want to exercise your Sherlock skills to the fullest, skip that last paragraph...

In a tale rooted in ancient Greek tragedy, a patriarch must decide the fate of his son and the boy he raised when a long-standing unneighbourly feud turns to murder....

Everyone carries something, some burden that weighs him down. Some are crushed, others are freed, others just carry on. Eleven characters cross each others paths, unveiling their fears and desires, during the world weightlifting championship...

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 ...

In a city where the boundaries have changed greatly, where to go in Slovenia identification, where the barriers (real or metaphorical that they need not even show) have crumbled over the years, where the famous wall of mental hospital was demolished ...

When fourteen-year-old Myrto learns her father has fled to avoid paying his debts, she kidnaps the son of his business partner whom she blames for bankrupting her father's joiner's workshop. Memories resurface as she wanders through the aisles of the...

Greece, Russia, USA, Brazil, China, Senegal. Meeting young people in these countries we heard a ‘Rumble’ foretelling an impending explosion. The fall of communism, crisis of capitalism, ecological catastrophes, migration waves, globalization. The new...

Marianna and her mother. Three days in their parallel lives, broken into: 1) departures, 2) visions, 3) passion and 4) an ascent....

A Greek filmmaker plans to shoot a film, following the footsteps of the Greek revolutionary Rigas Feraios. While visiting the cemetery, a small crowd of ghosts of the 18th century personalities decides to follow his path....

Wednesday 6 May 2009. Andreas works as a bank teller and is in debt. He and his colleague, Marios, will watch the Champions League semi-final "Chelsea-Barcelona" together on TV. Who will finally win?...

While attending a reintegration programme, Lena finds a job that gives her access to the rural jail for minors, where her son is serving his sentence. Last time she saw him, he was five years old....

Olga, a domestic worker originally from Albania, finds herself in a house she works in downtown Athens, at the right time. Or at the wrong one?...

The director creates a parallel of thirty years of her life (mid-1980s to 2012) and the evolution of her country, Greece. The loss of her lover, revived in archive photographs and 8 mm movies, is the background for her despair facing contemporaneous ...

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