Niki Triantafillidi

A quartet of short stories about Greece during the various occupations during World War 2

During the cold spring of 1941, with Greece already under German occupation, a long-suffering squad of war-battered soldiers receives orders from the headquarters in Athens to fall back, leaving behind the Albanian Front. As the men retreat through the snow-covered landscapes of the bomb-scarred Greek countryside, the terrifying certainty that nothing will ever be the same again crushes their weary human souls.

The battle-scarred hero of the Greek Revolution, Giannos "Astrapogiannos", returns home after the end of the blood-soaked War of Independence, only to find himself in a new conflict, as he locks horns with a ruthless local Kodjabashis.

A union leader is corrupted by the owner of a factory and appointed as its CEO.

Ten women hide out on an deserted island in the Ageian after an prison break where seven men, led by an ex-Nazi, arrive on the island to search for a buried treasure and force the women to dig for them, until one strong-willed woman, named Sarah, decides to plot a revolt.

August 1944, and a captain in the Greek army in the Middle East, Jason, secretly disembarks on an island with the mission of gathering information on the state of the German defensive positions, in view of the imminent landing of the Allied Forces. To complete his mission, he makes contact with some rebels, but the Germans are aware of his presence and arrest twelve men to force him to surrender. Shortly before the deadline expires, a local man who had been declared a deserter shortly before the war began and had been in hiding, presents himself at his post and is executed, making his wife and son proud.

In the Turkish-occupied Greece of the 18th century, Menousis when the Turks would kill his wife, decides to climb the mountains and along with the thieves to fight for the liberation of his country.

A modern retelling of the Orpheus myth where Euridice, code number BA 2037, is trapped in a metaphorical hell-house, waiting for rescue from her lover, Orpheus.

Three friends, on a cruise in the Ionian Sea, throw erotic messages in bottles into the sea and fantasize about the women in their lives.

Two poor young people, Martha and Manos, have grown up together and are in love, but the financial problems of the girl's family will lead her to marry a rich man. Manos, prompted by their separation, will write a song that will pave the way for his success, but will also bring him closer to another woman, whom he will marry...

A mysterious woman arrives on the Greek island Patmos.

Mikes, the head of sanitation for a large city, is a ruthless blackmailer who pressures his wife Anna to divorce him so he can marry his mistress. Callous and insensitive as he is, he has made her life a living hell. Anna does not want to divorce him because she is pregnant with his child and fears social condemnation. One night, she is attacked by a man who tries to rape her, but she is saved by a passerby, Alexis.

A poor young man (Thanos Livaditis) is working in a car cage and buying a car, mortgaging his mother's house (Eleni Zafiriou). It turns into a pirated taxi but has an accident. To repair the damage he suffered, he is forced to work for a wealthy man (Theodoros Moridis). He undertakes to make the driver of his spoiled daughter (Miranda Kounellaki). It will affect her and transform her into a responsible person, so she falls in love with him. At the same time, the young person gains the respect and appreciation of her father.

The wealthy and spoiled son of a successful industrialist decides to play with an honest, love-smitten woman, unbeknownst to him that she is the secretary of his father.

A young teacher arrives in a village that has been almost completely deserted by emigration and tries to educate the children and bridge the differences between the residents, which stem from the machinations of a powerful landowner.