Frieda Liappa

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Frieda Liappa

Born February 10, 1948 · Messini, Messinia, Greece

Died November 28, 1994 · aged 46

Frida Liappa (Greek: Φρίντα Λιάππα, Messini, Messinia, February 10, 1948 – Athens, November 28, 1994) was a Greek film director and poet. She studied Philosophy at the University of Athens and cinematography at the London Film School. She was involved in poetry (initially) and directing. A member of the "democratic youth of Lambrakis", she was arrested and imprisoned. She also developed anti-dict…

Known For

Love Wanders in the NightLove Wanders in the Night · 1981
Love Wanders in the Night
6.01981
MovieDrama
Eirini and Stella are two old maids and sisters who have grown up in the provinces and now live in Athens, in an apartment that looks out onto an open-air cinema. They are almost forty, still virgins and dependent on each other. Their only relative is their cousin Stefanos, with whom they were both in love, but who has been away in Paris for years. When he comes back and visits them, the balance between the two women is upset.
A Quiet DeathA Quiet Death · 1986
A Quiet Death
4.31986
MovieDrama
Martha is unhappy with her life as it is at the moment, and among other issues, she has decided to give up her writing career. Along with that decision comes a need to get away from her husband and from her psychiatrist, with whom she has had more than just a doctor-patient relationship. As Martha travels through a deserted city landscape in a storm, the external world reflects something of her inner turmoil. Flashbacks are interspersed throughout the film to enhance the suspense of Martha's inner and outer journey.
Anna's EngagementAnna's Engagement · 1972
Anna's Engagement
6.21972
MovieDrama
A lower-class maid navigates the social world of the upper-crust family she works for.
RefusedRefused · 1980
Refused
6.71980
MovieHorror
Frieda Liappa in this short film casts an alternative gaze on the notion of historicity. Loukia is a teenager currently staying at her cousin’s house in Athens. Unlike her cousin she is timid and quite stressed for the school exam. She studies history. Between the lines of her book the historical events sprung up in a multidimensional way. Liappa transverses the dimensions of the real the imaginary and the symbolic. She invites the viewer to consider the construction of the filmic as well as the historical text. She succeeds in making a film with an open end and to leave room for our own contingent constructions.
The Years of the Big HeatThe Years of the Big Heat · 1992
The Years of the Big Heat
5.41992
MovieDrama
One woman's lonely search for the truth about her mother's murder.
I Remember You Leaving All the TimeI Remember You Leaving All the Time · 1977
I Remember You Leaving All the Time
1977
MovieDrama
In Athens, a radical female journalist and a former stage actor share their lives against the backdrop of the regime change, right after the fall of the military dictatorship and the first legislative elections in 1974.
L'amoreL'amore · 1979
L'amore
10.01979
MovieDrama
Returning to her small town, Anna, the widow of an Italian soldier whom she married during the occupation, revives her old teenage love in the face of a young worker, whom she marries with her stepdaughter, in order to keep him close to her. At the same time, a neighbour tries by all means to take her house to build a hotel.
The Girl with Golden HairThe Girl with Golden Hair · 1978
The Girl with Golden Hair
9.01978
MovieDrama
Antonis Katsaris stars as a teacher in the small village of Zante who fights the growing desire of many locals to abandon the village for the big city or other countries. He works hard to organize traditional cultural events, such as outdoor performances of the traditional play I Chrissomalloussa, in order to solidify local values and a sense of identity. The teacher is aided by a young woman, a widow who has just returned from Germany and lives with her father-in-law. Kazan walks away with the film, as his sinister desires for his daughter-in-law are inflamed when he sees that she has fallen in love with the teacher. These developments lead him to whip up protests against the play by conservative locals, claiming that the teacher has changed the traditional story by adding elements of propaganda with the potential of causing peasant uprisings. The result is an unexpectedly violent example of social censorship.

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The Girl with Golden HairThe Girl with Golden Hair · 1978
The Girl with Golden Hair
9.01978
MovieDrama
Antonis Katsaris stars as a teacher in the small village of Zante who fights the growing desire of many locals to abandon the village for the big city or other countries. He works hard to organize traditional cultural events, such as outdoor performances of the traditional play I Chrissomalloussa, in order to solidify local values and a sense of identity. The teacher is aided by a young woman, a widow who has just returned from Germany and lives with her father-in-law. Kazan walks away with the film, as his sinister desires for his daughter-in-law are inflamed when he sees that she has fallen in love with the teacher. These developments lead him to whip up protests against the play by conservative locals, claiming that the teacher has changed the traditional story by adding elements of propaganda with the potential of causing peasant uprisings. The result is an unexpectedly violent example of social censorship.