2000
Summary
Athens 1966 Greece wavering between reform and self-destruction. Thirteen year-old Dimitris unexpectedly loses his father when the new government discontinues the construction of a monstrous 12-story high rise in the center of the capital. Seeing his pampered mother collapse young Dimitris gets carried away by his prematurely grown-up appearance and decides to skip childhood in order to stand by her and continue his father's work. A brutal coming-of-age ritual follows. When he feels ready to shoulder his responsibilities he must claim his mother back from the arms of an up-and-coming star of the political scene. A series of minor and major betrayals will propel Dimitris to a revolutionary act of vengeance that will change the course of Greek history...
Credits
Director: Yorgos Tsemberopoulos
Script: Dennis Iliadis, Yorgos Tsemberopoulos,
Cinematography: Platon Andronidis
Music: Marios Strofalis
Editing: Takis Yannopoulos
Art Director: Antonis Daglidis
Costume Design: Maria Kontodima
Sound Recording: Nikos Papadimitriou
Make-up artist: Maroula Vassiliadou
Cast: Constantinos Papadimitriou (Dimitris), Alexandriani Sikelianou, Haris Sozos, Andreas Contopoulos, Matias Simounets, Ieroklis Michailidis, Antonis Kafetzopoulos
Producers: Fenia Cosovitsa, Amanda Livanou, Hercules Mavroides
Production: JBA Productions (France), Rosebud SA, Alpha, Sky, IDEEFIXE NETMED (Filmnet), SA FILMEX (Romania), TNT, Greek Film Centre, FILM-PARTNERS S.A.
With the support of: Eurimages - Council of Europe European Script Fund, an initiative by the media programme of the European Union.
Format:35 mm
Color:Color
Running time:104 minutes
Sound:Dolby SR
• 2000 •1:1.66 • Greek
TAKE CARE
1991
Summary
In Athens - Greece, today. Christos, 22, wants to hit the big time, become famous, and make money. But it is Michalis, Marina's husband and Fanny's father, who has the money. Marina is a woman who sacrifices herself for her husband and kids, but now (in her forties) her heart flutters again the way it did when she was in her twenties. Fanny, 18, a would-be swimming champ, is already in love with him. Roula, his hot-blooded girlfriend is not willing to lose him. It has been quite a while since a Greek filmmaker last dealt with the small insignificant" dramas that are played out every day in Athenian apartments without ever hitting the front pages of the dailies or the evening news. The protagonist in Tsemberopoulos' film is our next-door neighbour, the lady in the apartment building across the street, the kid who rented the semi-basement studio and so on. The setting takes place in the archetypal "Athenian apartment", a futile test tube where needs, dreams and passions stir together.
Credits
Director: Yorgos Tsemberopoulos
Script: Vassilis Alexakis, Yorgos Tsemberopoulos
(based on Yovanna's novel "Ante Yia").
Cinematography: Yannis Daskalothanassis
Music: Stamatis Spanoudakis
Editing: Yannis Tsitsopoulos
Sets-Costumes: Alexis Kyritsopoulos
Cast: Alkis Kourkoulos, Katy Papanika, Tania Tripi, Vana Barba,
Nikos Dimitratos
Production: ERT SA, Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation, Filmiki Productions S.A., Greek Film Centre
Format: 35 mm
Color: Color
Running time: 93 minutes
• 1990 • 1:1.66 • Greek
SUDDEN LOVE
1984
Summary
Eleni is a country girl who came to Athens twenty years ago. Today she is in her early thirties, a would-be dancer who no longer dances, a married woman no longer in love with her husband, leading an uneventful bourgeois life. Grigoris is a successful economist, a career man, who has lived in Paris for so long that he feels nostalgia for Greece and his boyhood years there. When the two of them meet, they feel a sudden love for each other, a love that thrills them and threatens their quiet lives. Their love takes them to Lisbon, and perhaps even further.
Credits
Director: Yorgos Tsemberopoulos
Script: Yorgos Tsemberopoulos (from the novel Talgo by Vassilis Alexakis)
Cinematography: George Panoussopoulos
Music: Stamatis Spanoudakis
Editing: Aristides Karydis Fuchs, Gianni Livi
Art Director: Nicos Perakis
Costume design: Mary Maniati
Sound Recording: Marinos Athanassopoulos
Executive in charge of production: Vassilis Katsoufis
Cast: Betty Livanou, Antonis Theodorakopoulos, Nikitas Tsakiroglou, Thanassis Papageorgiou, Sofia Seirli, Rita Lambrinou, Tassos Papadakis, Nikos Pilavios, Irini Koumarianou, Yannis Totsikas, Tse.
Production: Yorgos Tsemberopoulos, Spentzos Film, Greek Film Centre
Format: 35 mm
Color: Color
Running time: 100 minutes
• 1984 • 1:1.66 • Greek
MEGARA
1974
Summary
The uprising of the villagers of Megara against the junta's decision to take over a vast
agricultural land in order to build an oil-refinery, and their successful struggle against this call, this being the first massive demonstration against the totalitarian government. The documentary of Yorgos Tsemperopoulos and Sakis Maniatis was shot in 1973, back when ecology and environment where terms unheard of in Greece. The destruction of the ancient olive grove of Megara was one of the gravest ecological disasters in the country, and it was recorded by the two filmmakers with powerful cinematic language, in one of the most important documentary films of contemporary cinema.
Credits
A film of: Yorgos Tsemberopoulos and Sakis Maniatis
Camera/Editing: Sakis Maniatis
With: The peasants of Megara.
Greece 1973/74. 69mins, color & b/w, 35mm, 1:1/ 1,33
Format: 35 mm
Color: color & b/w
Running time: 69 minutes
• 1973/74 • 1:1/ 1,33 • Greek
