Writing
Alexandros Papadiamantis
Born March 4, 1851 · Skiathos, Greece
Died January 3, 1911 · aged 59
Alexandros Papadiamantis (Greek: Ἀλέξανδρος Παπαδιαμάντης; 4 March 1851 – 3 January 1911) was an influential Greek novelist, short-story writer and poet. Papadiamantis was born in Greece, on the island of Skiathos, in the western part of the Aegean Sea. The island would figure prominently in his work. His father was a priest. He moved to Athens as a young man to complete his high school studies, …
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The Murderess · 1993The Murderess
1993
MovieDrama
Fragogiannou, an elderly woman born and raised in a male-dominated society, believes that the birth of a girl brings misery to both the child and its family. Starting with her own newborn granddaughter, she commits crimes against young girls.
The Murderess · 1974The Murderess
★ 7.51974
MovieDrama
An adaptation of one of the greatest greek novellas ('The Murderess' by Alexandros Papadiamantis). Fragkogiannou (Maria Alkaiou), a hard-done by, deranged woman after a life full of hardship, recalls the past by her newborn girl grandchild’s crib. Her mother was a wicked woman and one of her sons was a criminal. Lost in a haze, she strangles the baby as she is concvinced that girls can cause their family only trouble. Later, she lets a little girl drown in a well, while she drowns three other little girls, one of whom is a newborn baby. This is her way of sparing children and parents of the inevitable suffering in life.
Fonissa · 2023Fonissa
★ 6.42023
MovieDrama
It is the early 20th century on a dystopian Greek island. Hadoula, a widow who lost her husband, loannis Fragkos, at a young age, is a woman who has learned how to survive in a male-dominated and extremely patriarchal society. Hadoula carries a difficult burden within her. Like a baton passed on to her from her mother, and the generations before her, she is meant to accept the belittling and degradation of women. Hadoula reacts. Her personal, internal revolution soon comes forth. The victims of her outburst are the little girls of the island, whom she sets free from the social and economic burden that their existence entails by taking their lives. Her actions will bring her face to face with the law. She leaves her home and escapes to her refuge, nature. But as much as her faith and morals dictate that she did the right thing, her trans-generational trauma follows her everywhere. And the end comes as redemption.
Shores of Twilight · 1998Shores of Twilight
★ 7.51998
MovieDrama
An adaptation of Alexandros Papadiamantis's short story. Passion for a woman and some desperate thoughts push a young man to secretly take a stranger's boat and set sail. The wind carries him away and he is shipwrecked. He comes to in a cave, near the deserted shores, among three eccentric people who, each for their own reasons, live on the margins of society. He listens to them recount their personal stories with humour and self-deprecation. But behind their seemingly ill-fated romances, he discerns true love.
The Immigrant · 1965The Immigrant
★ 10.01965
MovieDrama
A young man returns to his home after years abroad, despite not becoming wealthy, he has managed to save money for his last years.
Vardianos Sta Sporka · 2021Vardianos Sta Sporka
★ 7.32021
SeriesDrama
The story tells the story of 50-year-old Skeva. When she learns that her son, who has barricaded himself in order to raise money to propose to his beloved Rinio, is ill, Skevo disguises himself as a man and becomes a guard in the sports (ships that were in quarantine due to cholera) in order to save him.
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