Greek movie "GIANNIS IN THE CITIES" @ Utopia with English subtitles for € 12

Synopsis

1949. Giannis, the son of a partisan, is uprooted and
sent to the state-run children's camps, where his beliefs are reshaped. As an
adult, he sets out to find the father who has haunted him. The true story of
the writer Yannis Atzakas.

Avec: Filippos Milikas, Marios Konstantinos Galetzas, Konstantinos Athanasakis. Agni Strumboulis, Eugenia Apostolou, Yannis
Kritharas, Mina Chimonas, Manolis Mavromatakis, Simos Kakallas, Kostis
Seiradakis, Evi Saoulidou, George Tsiapogas, Akyllas Karazisis, Katerina
Alexandraki, Aglaia Pappa, Prometheus Nerattini, Vasiliki Skordali, Katia
Leclerc O’Wallis, Katia Goulioni, Themis Panou, Yannis Kokkiasmeinos, Eudoxia
Androulidaki, Kostas Filippoglou, Maria Kallimani, Andreas Marianos, Rafika
Chawishe, Cleopatra Markou, Stelios Minas.

Brief Historical
Information

During the Greek Civil
War (1946-1949), the two opposing armies rounded up children and took them from
their homes. The government forces took them to the Children’s Cities set up by
the ‘Welfare Fund of the Northern Provinces of Greece under the high protection
of the Queen Frederica’.

The Republican Army transported
children outside the borders of the country to similar institutions in the
Eastern countries. The children who were transferred were in fact both
‘rescued’ and ‘kidnapped’. They were rescued because they were protected from
bombing, they were fed better than those left in their villages, and many of
them were educated. But they were kidnapped in the sense that both camps wanted
to educate them according to their own beliefs, to imprison them in their own
world, to propagate their policies.

Τrailer:
ΘΟΛΟΣ ΒΥΘΟΣ | Επίσημο
Trailer | Μια ταινία της Ελένης Αλεξανδράκη | Από 20 Φεβρουαρίου 2025

A few words about the director

Eleni
Alexandrakis was born in 1957 in Athens. She studied film at the Sorbonne
University, Paris I and at the National Film and TV School of England. She has
written, directed and produced a few fiction films as well as documentaries
among which: « A Drop in the Ocean» (fiction), « Easter is in the air»
(documentary) « The Woman who longed for Home» (fiction) Angel and the
Weightlifter (fiction). She has received many prizes in Greece and abroad. Her
film « A Drop in the Ocean» was presented at the Forum of the Berlin Film
Festival, in 1996, where Eleni got the Mionneto Film Award. The same film
travelled in many festivals around the world where the main actress Amalia
Moutoussi got a few awards. In 2005 « The Woman who Missed Home » got a Special
Mention at the Rhodes Eco Film Festival and Nicos Papazoglou got a State Award
for the Music of the Film. In 2009 « Angel and the Weightlifter » got a Gold
Remi Award in WorldFest Houston. Her last feature length documentary is
"Kostis Papagiorgis, the sweetest misanthrope" that got the Greek
Association Critics’Awards at the 20th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival.

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